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SubjectRe: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler
Antonio Vargas wrote:
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> 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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