From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: yield during swap prefetching
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:06:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060317090653.GC13387@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603090036.49915.kernel@kolivas.org>
* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > We do have SCHED_BATCH but even that doesn't really have the desired
> > effect. I know how much yield sucks and I actually want it to suck as much
> > as yield does.
>
> Thinking some more on this I wonder if SCHED_BATCH isn't a strong
> enough scheduling hint if it's not suitable for such an application.
> Ingo do you think we could make SCHED_BATCH tasks always wake up on
> the expired array?
yep, i think that's a good idea. In the worst case the starvation
timeout should kick in.
Ingo
--
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: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 23:13 Con Kolivas
2006-03-07 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 23:32 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 0:51 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 1:12 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 1:19 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 1:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 1:28 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 2:08 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 2:12 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 2:18 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 2:22 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 2:27 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 2:30 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 2:52 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2006-03-08 3:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 3:05 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 21:07 ` Zan Lynx
2006-03-08 23:00 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 23:48 ` Zan Lynx
2006-03-09 0:07 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-09 3:13 ` Zan Lynx
2006-03-09 4:08 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-09 4:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 7:51 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-08 8:39 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-09 8:57 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-09 9:08 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-09 22:44 ` Peter Williams
2006-03-10 9:01 ` [ck] " Andreas Mohr
2006-03-10 9:11 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-10 0:58 ` Peter Williams
2006-03-08 22:24 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-09 2:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-09 2:30 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-09 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-09 9:11 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-08 13:36 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-03-17 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-03-08 8:48 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-03-08 8:52 ` Con Kolivas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060317090653.GC13387@elte.hu \
--to=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=ck@vds.kolivas.org \
--cc=kernel@kolivas.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox