Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 07:01:03 EST


On Friday 07 April 2006 20:57, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The
> > extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by
> > the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood),
> > the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly
> > has priority.
>
> (I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.)
>
> This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel. I was more or
> less separating this one from the others, because I consider this
> problem to be very severe. IMHO, this or something like it needs to get
> upstream soon.

Which is a fine observation but your code is changing every 2nd day. Which is
also fine because code needs to evolve. However that's not really the way we
push stuff upstream...

-ck
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