Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:36:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > > Well what other cases are there? Can we enumerate them and come up 
> > > with similar solutions?
> > 
> > Javascript has timers. We execute rather a lot of javascript from 
> > sources we can't influence at all.
> 
> Which brings me to yet another gripe I've got with firefox, _WHY_ does
> it run javascript for tabs I can't see? Simply freeze the interpreter.

Because people expect gmail to provide them with status updates even if 
it's not the foreground tab.

> Then again, what does JavaScript do with these timers? I don't really
> see how javascript/random-native-binary are really different, something
> needs doing. What something?

I agree that the thing that needs doing probably involves web developers 
and threats of implied violence, but I suspect that web developers are 
being created faster than we can reeducate them.

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