Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-09-22T11:22:49Z

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:06 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > I don't know if distros provide a tool that supports SCHED_IDLE, if so,
> > you can use that to set both CPU and IO usage to IDLE class in one go.
>
> P.S. I just remembered, don't use SCHED_IDLE with kernels < 2.6.28.
> There are two patches wrt this scheduling class which did not go to the
> stable trees less than 2.6.28.

Since 2.6.27 is long-term, maybe they should be sent to 2.6.27? It is weird
to have a long-term stable kernel for which the recommendation is "don't use
SCHED_IDLE".

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Henrique Holschuh