lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Aug]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH]O14int [SCHED_SOFTRR please]
At 08:19 PM 8/11/2003 +0200, Roger Larsson wrote:
>On Sunday 10 August 2003 13.17, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > At 01:48 AM 8/10/2003 -0700, Simon Kirby wrote:
> > >I am seeing similar starvation problems that others are seeing in these
> > >threads. At first it was whenever I clicked a link in Mozilla -- xmms
> > >would stop, sometimes for a second or so, on a Celeron 466 MHz machine.
> >
> > Do you see this with test-X and Ingo's latest changes too? I can only
> > imagine one scenario off the top of my head where this could happen; if
> > xmms exhausted a slice while STARVATION_LIMIT is exceeded, it could land in
> > the expired array and remain unserviced for the period of time it takes for
> > all tasks remaining in the active array to exhaust their slices. Seems
> > like that should be pretty rare though.
> >
>
>xmms is a RT process - it does not really have interactivity problems...
>It will be extremely hard to fix this in a generic scheduler, instead
>let xmms be the RT process it is with SCHED_SOFTRR (or whatever
>it will be named).
>Do this for arts, and other audio/video path applications.

(For the scenario described, it doesn't matter what scheduler policy is used)

>Then start the race for interactivity tuning
> (X, X applications, console, login, etc)
>
>interactivity = two-way
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=interactive
>
>Listening to music is not interactive.

?!? <tilt> What makes you say that? What in the world am I doing when I
fire up xmms?
(can't be the two way thing... that's happening until I stop listening)

-Mike

-Mike

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:47    [W:0.127 / U:0.456 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site