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SubjectRe: [PATCH] remove interactive credit

* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:

> >>remove interactive credit
> >
> >we could try this in -mm, but it obviously needs alot of testing first.
> >Do you have any particular workload in mind where the fairness win due
> >to this revert would/should be significant?
>
> Since I created this variable in the first place I can say with quite
> some certainty that the size of the advantage is miniscule. Whereas
> clearly the design introduces special case mistreatment of only one
> type of task. It's an addition to the interactivity code I've often
> looked at and regretted doing.

yeah, i know, it was the only piece of code from your earlier -Oint
scheduler-fixup series i almost didnt ack. But now it's in and testing
needs to cross at least one stable kernel boundary before it can be
taken out again. (unless a patch is an obvious or important fix.)

Ingo
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