On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:53 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > It's not "offensive" to me, it is a behavioral regression. The
> > situation as we speak is that you can run cpu intensive tasks while
> > watching eye-candy. With RSDL, you can't, you feel the non-interactive
> > load instantly. Doesn't the fact that you're asking me to lower my
> > expectations tell you that I just might have a point?
>
> Yet looking at the mainline scheduler code, nice 5 tasks are also supposed to
> get 75% cpu compared to nice 0 tasks, however I cannot seem to get 75% cpu
> with a fully cpu bound task in the presence of an interactive task.
(One more comment before I go. You can then have the last word this
time, promise :)
Because the interactivity logic, which was put there to do precisely
this, is doing it's job?
> To me
> that means mainline is not living up to my expectations. What you're saying
> is your expectations are based on a false cpu expectation from nice 5. You
> can spin it both ways.
Talk about spin, you turn an example of the current scheduler working
properly into a negative attribute, and attempt to discredit me with it.
The floor is yours. No reply will be forthcoming.
-Mike
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