Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:19:47AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> | i think using nice for both cpu share and latency is broken by design ...
> | a typical use case on my system: for real-time tv recording i need
> | mencoder to get some 80% of the cpu time on average. that means i have
> | to nice -<something "big"> it to prevent compiles, flash plugins running
> | amok, etc. from making mencoder explode (i.e., overrun buffers). but that
> | entirely destroys interactivity; in fact the desktop becomes basically
> | unusable.
> 
> You want mencoder to use 80% of your cpu
>
yes.

> and be scheduled fast enough to not drop frames.
>
no. a) because the grabber runs in a separate thread that uses hardly
any cpu and should be auto-classified as interactive and b) because the
bttv driver can buffer a few frames in the kernel anyway.

greetings

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