Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 04:42:38 EST


At 05:18 PM 8/12/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

And no, X isn't intentionally sleeping. Its being preempted which is
obviously not intentional.

Right. Every time X wakes the gl thread, he'll lose the cpu. Once the gl thread passes X in priority, X is pretty much doomed. (hmm... sane [hard] backboost will probably prevent that)

-Mike

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