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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:47:36 +0100 From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no> To: Antonio Vargas <windenntw@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck@....kolivas.org, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, jos poortvliet <jos@...nkamer.nl> Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler Antonio Vargas wrote: > > IIRC, about 2 or three years ago (or maybe on the 2.6.10 timeframe), > there was a patch which managed to pass the interactive from one app > to another when there was a pipe or udp connection between them. This > meant that a marked-as-interactive xterm would, when blocked waiting > for an Xserver response, transfer some of its interactiveness to the > Xserver, and aparently it worked very good for desktop workloads so, > maybe adapting it for this new scheduler would be good. And it was dropped because of some very nasty side effect, probably a DOS opportunity. Helge Hafting - 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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