Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:58:34 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add requeue task |
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> >| Change the granularity code to requeue tasks at their best priority > >| instead of changing priority while they're running. This keeps tasks > >| at their top interactive level during their whole timeslice. > > > >this is a behavioral change and should go into the 'possible negative > >effect on interactivity' bucket. (of course it could very likely have a > >positive effect as well - the bucket is just to separate the risks.) > > Actually I'd like to say I did it for positive effect to counter the > change that occurred with dropping interactive credit. That was what I > found in my testing, and I'd like them both to go together into -mm.
just in case my splitout comment wasnt clear: ack for that fix too, conditional on good -mm exposure. Unlike the interactive_credit change i think this one would be borderline doable for 2.6.10 if in -mm for a couple of weeks at least, because the regression fixed by this is fresh in 2.6.9.
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