From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275407AbTHNTsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:48:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275412AbTHNTsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:48:35 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:5897 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S275407AbTHNTsa (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:48:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3BEB0C.9090608@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:03:24 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: William Lee Irwin III , rob@landley.net, Charlie Baylis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity References: <20030804195058.GA8267@cray.fish.zetnet.co.uk> <200308141659.33447.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030814070119.GN32488@holomorphy.com> <200308141746.53346.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > Thus tasks that never sleep are always below the interactive delta > so each time they use up their timeslice they go onto the expired array. > Tasks with enough bonus points can go back onto the active array if they > haven't used up those bonus points. How does a bonus point translate to a priority level? How many bonus points can you collect?