Re: interactive task starvation

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 08:21:27 EST


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:59 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > I can make the knobs compile time so we don't see random behavior
> > reports, but I don't think they can be totally eliminated. Would that
> > be sufficient?
> >
> > If so, the numbers as delivered should be fine for desktop boxen I
> > think. People who are building custom kernels can bend to fit as
> > always.
>
> That would suit me perfectly. I think I would set them both to zero.
> It's not clear to me what workload they can help, it seems that they
> try to allow a sometimes unfair scheduling.

Correct. Massively unfair scheduling is what interactivity requires.

-Mike

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