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

Mike Galbraith
2007-03-12T20:45:49Z

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:38 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 07:11, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > Killing the known corner case starvation scenarios is wonderful, but
> > let's not just pretend that interactive tasks don't have any special
> > requirements.
>
> Now you're really making a stretch of things. Where on earth did I say that
> interactive tasks don't have special requirements? It's a fundamental feature
> of this scheduler that I go to great pains to get them as low latency as
> possible and their fair share of cpu despite having a completely fair cpu
> distribution.

As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or interactivity
loses. Pick one.

-Mike