Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches

From: Diego Calleja García (diegocg@teleline.es)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 11:52:56 EST


El Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:46:30 -0500 Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> escribió:

> Audio players fall into a special category of application, the kind where it's
> not unreasonable to change the code around to take advantage of new kernel
> features to make them work better. Remember this word: audiophile. An
> audiophile will do whatever it takes to attain more perfect reproduction.
> Furthermore, where goes the audophile, soon follows the regular user. Just
> go into a stereo store if you need convincing about that.

I wonder if X falls in this category too; the X behaviour should be as
good as the scheduler allows it; but for a "desktop user" X behaviour
should be reponsive *always* (ie: it should have priority even if it
doesn't need it) and i wonder if that should be changed too.
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