From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Jussi Laako <jussi@sonarnerd.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
d.faggioli@sssup.it
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:32:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A099670.5060902@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A094707.5040307@sonarnerd.net>
Jussi Laako wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>>As to the patch, I still think its an exceedingly bad idea to create
>>such a horridly ill defined scheduler class. There's nothing that keeps
>>people from stuffing everything in there and either generating DoS
>>issues or still generating bad interactivity.
>
>
> Lite patch practically exports nice levels as scheduling priorities in
> order to make it possible to assign different levels to different
> threads of the same process.
If all you're trying to do is allow different threads to run at
different nice levels, what about extending sys_setpriority() to take a
"which" of PRIO_THREAD? We'd probably have to call the syscall directly
until/unless libc picks up the new option.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 18:40 [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class Jussi Laako
2008-12-30 7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-30 8:39 ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-12 9:55 ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-12 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-13 9:44 ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-17 12:49 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-01-25 23:09 ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-26 7:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-11 8:22 ` [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2 Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 5:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-12 5:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 9:53 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 15:32 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-05-12 16:34 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 16:45 ` Raistlin
2009-05-12 17:38 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 17:55 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 17:00 ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-12 17:53 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 23:04 ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13 6:36 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 10:07 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 12:12 ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 9:40 ` Henrik Austad
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