Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:22:46 -0300 | From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <> | Subject | Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:06 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > I don't know if distros provide a tool that supports SCHED_IDLE, if so, > > you can use that to set both CPU and IO usage to IDLE class in one go. > > P.S. I just remembered, don't use SCHED_IDLE with kernels < 2.6.28. > There are two patches wrt this scheduling class which did not go to the > stable trees less than 2.6.28.
Since 2.6.27 is long-term, maybe they should be sent to 2.6.27? It is weird to have a long-term stable kernel for which the recommendation is "don't use SCHED_IDLE".
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