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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optional non-interactive mode for cpu scheduler
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:11:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041102131105.GA17535@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4187854C.6000803@kolivas.org>


* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:

> However the non-interactive mode addresses a number of different needs 
> that seem to have come up. Specifically:
> I have had users report great success with such a mode on my own 
> scheduler in multiple X session setups where very choppy behaviour 
> occurs in mainline.

since SCHED_CPUBOUND would be inherited across fork(), it should be
rather easy to start an X session with all tasks as SCHED_CPUBOUND.

but i think the above rather points in the direction of some genuine
weakness in the interactivity code (i know, for which the fix is
staircase ;) which would be nice to debug.

> Many high performance computing people do not wish interactivity code
> modifying their choice of latency/distribution - admittedly this is a
> soft one.

well, SCHED_CPUBOUND would solve their needs too, right?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-02 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-02  5:31 [PATCH] optional non-interactive mode for cpu scheduler Con Kolivas
2004-11-02 12:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-11-02 13:02   ` Con Kolivas
2004-11-02 13:11     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-11-02 13:40       ` Con Kolivas
2004-11-02 13:52         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-11-02 17:17           ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-03  9:16           ` Con Kolivas

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