From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261279AbUKBMnn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:43:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbUKBMnF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:43:05 -0500 Received: from mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.199]:53990 "EHLO mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261279AbUKBMlN (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:41:13 -0500 Message-ID: <41878057.9000302@kolivas.org> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:40:55 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove interactive credit References: <418707CD.1080903@kolivas.org> <20041102123746.GB15290@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041102123746.GB15290@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6DE2C6F417CB206682C60080" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6DE2C6F417CB206682C60080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Con Kolivas wrote: > > >>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 --------------enig6DE2C6F417CB206682C60080 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBh4BaZUg7+tp6mRURAsm6AJ98U6ZolUSekmWB50lckbW74+wnegCeLjXI SWux8VxI4PGm6AKWUkZtmCs= =OvLx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6DE2C6F417CB206682C60080--