From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:23:39 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Message-ID: <20030707152339.GA9669@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307060414.34827.phillips@arcor.de> <200307071424.06393.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: Davide Libenzi wrote: > The scheduler has to work w/out external input, period. Can you justify this? It strikes me that a music player's thread which requests a special music-playing scheduling hint is not unreasonable, if that actually works and scheduler heuristics do not. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org