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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:06:43 +0100 From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr> To: Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit : > Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your > encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do? One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler is "strictly fair", won't that enable trivial DoS by just letting an user fork a multitude of CPU-intensive processes ? Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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