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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:42:37 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, 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

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 21:11 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> How would you go about ensuring that there won't be any cycles wasted?

SCHED_IDLE or otherwise nice 19
 
> Killing the known corner case starvation scenarios is wonderful, but
> let's not just pretend that interactive tasks don't have any special
> requirements.

Interaction wants low latency, getting that is traditionally expressed
in priorities - the highest prio gets the least latency (all RTOSs work
like that).

There is nothing that warrants giving them more CPU time IMHO; if you
think they deserve more, express that using priorities.

Priorities are a well understood concept and they work; heuristics can
(and Murphy tells us they will) go wrong.

Getting the server/client thing working can be done without heuristics
using class based scheduling.

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