From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove interactive credit
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:40:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41878057.9000302@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041102123746.GB15290@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
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>>remove interactive credit
>
>
> we could try this in -mm, but it obviously needs alot of testing first.
> Do you have any particular workload in mind where the fairness win due
> to this revert would/should be significant?
Since I created this variable in the first place I can say with quite
some certainty that the size of the advantage is miniscule. Whereas
clearly the design introduces special case mistreatment of only one type
of task. It's an addition to the interactivity code I've often looked at
and regretted doing.
Con
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-02 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-02 4:06 [PATCH] remove interactive credit Con Kolivas
2004-11-02 12:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-03 22:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-02 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-11-02 12:40 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2004-11-02 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-11-02 12:49 ` Con Kolivas
2004-11-02 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
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