Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

Mike Galbraith
2007-03-13T06:30:14Z

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:16 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:08, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Virtual or physical cores has nothing to do with the interactivity
> > regression I noticed. Two nice 0 tasks which combined used 50% of my
> > box can no longer share that box with two nice 5 tasks and receive the
> > 50% they need to perform. That's it. From there, we wandered off into a
> > discussion on the relative merit and pitfalls of fairness.
>
> And again, with X in its current implementation it is NOT like two nice 0
> tasks at all; it is like one nice 0 task. This is being fixed in the X design
> as we speak.

Shrug. I don't live then, I live now. I have expressed my concerns,
and will now switch from talk back to listen mode.

-Mike