Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:30:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy |
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 14:35, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Hi, > > Patch against 2.6.0-test4. It fixes a lot of problems here vs > > previous versions. There aren't really any open issues for me, so > > testers would be welcome. > > > > The big change is more dynamic timeslices, which allows "interactive" > > tasks to get very small timeslices while more compute intensive loads > > can be given bigger timeslices than usual. This works properly with > > nice (niced processes will tend to get bigger timeslices). > > > > I think I have cured test-starve too. > > I haven't still found any starvation cases, but forking time when the > system is under heavy load has increased considerable with respect to > vanilla or Con's O18.1int:
Not having starvation cases may be worth a little overhead. I am more concerned about avoiding "jackpot cases" than throughput, at least on a desktop.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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