Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:46:48 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove interactive credit |
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* 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.)
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