From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:21:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41118B87.3080604@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040804114232.GA23285@outpost.ds9a.nl>
bert hubert wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:33:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
>>>Well duh... disable interactivity and interactivity is bad. What's the
>>>problem? It's not meant to be used on a desktop in that way.
>>>
>>Well why would you want to disable it then?
>>
>
>When not on a desktop of course - most servers don't care about X
>interactivity but do care a lot about 'nice', and would not want to grant a
>process the CPU (unfairly) longer to satisfy the human need for snappy
>responses.
>
>
Fairness is a pretty basic property though, and should not be dropped
lightly.
Even on the desktop, unfairness could be explicitly wrong for a small number
of users, while also opening you up to "implicit" corner cases.
As far as interactivity goes maybe it can be disregarded on servers,
maybe it
can't. What about multi user servers? Does it only apply to X interactivity?
Then how about multi user desktops? Maybe not a big deal.
Fairness should be fundamental though (IMO).
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 8:55 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-08-02 9:23 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Espen Fjellvær Olsen
2004-08-02 12:10 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Rik van Riel
2004-08-05 10:56 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Hideo AOKI
2004-08-05 12:55 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Hideo AOKI
2004-08-02 13:07 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03 6:43 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-03 7:35 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03 7:43 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-03 7:45 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 8:35 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 10:12 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 10:33 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 11:42 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 bert hubert
2004-08-05 1:21 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-04 10:31 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-04 10:46 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 10:47 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 12:45 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-05 2:53 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-05 8:34 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Helge Hafting
2004-08-05 9:34 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-05 10:47 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-02 13:52 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 16:12 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 14:28 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 15:31 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-02 15:33 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Jesper Juhl
2004-08-02 15:38 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Dominik Karall
2004-08-02 16:02 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-03 6:55 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-08-02 15:57 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Martin Zwickel
2004-08-02 17:59 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-02 18:15 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-02 22:16 ` [patch] 2.6.8-rc2-mm2: compile error with SWAP=n Adrian Bunk
2004-08-03 8:27 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-03 13:05 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 R. J. Wysocki
2004-08-03 13:13 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03 19:44 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2004-08-04 16:32 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Dominik Karall
2004-08-05 4:38 ` [sparc32] [1/13] turbosparc flush warnings William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:39 ` [sparc32] [2/13] sparc32 init_idle() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:41 ` [sparc32] [3/13] sun4d cpu_present_map is a cpumask_t William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:44 ` [sparc32] [4/13] smp_processor_id() BITFIXUP fixes William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:46 ` [sparc32] [5/13] reinstate smp_reschedule_irq() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:47 ` [sparc32] [6/13] remove references to start_secondary() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:48 ` [sparc32] [7/13] remove references to num_context_patch2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:49 ` [sparc32] [8/13] define cache_decay_ticks William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:54 ` [sparc32] [9/13] remove unused variable in dvma.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:55 ` [sparc32] [10/13] sun4 does not support SMP William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 4:56 ` [sparc32] [11/13] make CONFIG_SMP depend on CONFIG_BROKEN William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 5:01 ` [sparc32] [12/13] gcc-3.3 macro parenthesization fix for memcpy.S William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 5:31 ` [sparc32] [13/13] ignore undefined symbols with 3 or more leading underscores William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05 7:28 ` [sparc32] [12/13] gcc-3.3 macro parenthesization fix for memcpy.S Jakub Jelinek
2004-08-05 7:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
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