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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	John Yau <jyau_kernel_dev@hotmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Priority Inversion in Scheduling
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:35:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910053549.GE28279@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20030910062610.01cfacd8@pop.gmx.net>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:42:10AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 02:23 AM 9/10/2003, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >Hi John,
> >Your mechanism is basically "backboost". Its how you get X to keep a
> >high piroirity, but quite unpredictable. Giving a boost to a process
> >holding a semaphore is an interesting idea, but it doesn't address the
> >X problem.
> 
> FWIW, I tried the hardware usage bonus thing, and it does cure the X 
> inversion problem (yeah,  it's a pretty cheezy way to do it).  It also 
> cures xmms skips if you can't get to the top without hw usage.  I also 
> tried a cpu limited backboost from/to tasks associated with hardware, and 
> it hasn't run amok... yet ;-)

Against which scheduler, and when are you going to post the patch?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09 19:57 Priority Inversion in Scheduling John Yau
2003-09-10  0:23 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-10  4:42   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-09-10  5:35     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-09-10  6:22       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-09-10  9:28         ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-10 10:47           ` Mike Galbraith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-10  2:20 John Yau
2003-09-10  2:31 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-10  5:41   ` Priority Inversion in Scheduling John Yau

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