Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:47:36 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler |
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Antonio Vargas wrote: > > IIRC, about 2 or three years ago (or maybe on the 2.6.10 timeframe), > there was a patch which managed to pass the interactive from one app > to another when there was a pipe or udp connection between them. This > meant that a marked-as-interactive xterm would, when blocked waiting > for an Xserver response, transfer some of its interactiveness to the > Xserver, and aparently it worked very good for desktop workloads so, > maybe adapting it for this new scheduler would be good. And it was dropped because of some very nasty side effect, probably a DOS opportunity.
Helge Hafting
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