Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 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)

Isn't 2.4 doing exactly that for pipes and such?
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