linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

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Message-Id: <1173726403.9153.5.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
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


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