Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:32:00 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 08:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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".
Yeah, that's what I thought too, but apparently maintainers didn't think SCHED_IDLE was common/important enough.
-Mike
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