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SubjectRe: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity


Nick Piggin wrote:

>>
>
> I don't quite understand what you are getting at, but if you don't
> want to
> sleep you should be able to use a non blocking syscall. But in some cases
> I think there are times when you may not be able to use a non blocking
> call.
>
> And if a process is a CPU hog, its a CPU hog. If its not its not. Doesn't
> matter how it would behave on another system.
>
>

The idea is that this kind of process WANTS to be a CPU hog. If it were
not for the fact that the I/O is not immediately available, it would
never want to sleep. The only thing it ever blocks on is the read, and
this is involuntary. It doesn't use a non blocking call because it
can't continue without the data.

The questions is: Does this matter for the issue of interactivity?


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