linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

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Message-ID: <4CE3D6EF.2050009@earthlink.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:21:51 -0500
From:	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>
To:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

On 11/16/2010 03:31 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 16.11.10 21:03, Pekka Enberg (penberg@...nel.org) wrote:
>
>    
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> User-level configuration for something that should just work is
>>> annoying. We can do better.
>>>        
>> Completely agreed. Desktop users should not be required to fiddle with
>> kernel knobs from userspace to fix interactivity problems. Having sane
>> defaults applies to the kernel as much as it does to userspace.
>>      
> Jeez. Don't mentione the desktop. On the desktop this is compleltely
> irrelevant. There are not TTYs on the desktop. There's no "make -j" of
> the kernel tree on the desktop.
>
> The kernel patch discussed here *has* *no* *relevance* for normal users.
>
> The kernel patch discussed here is only relevant for people which start
> mplayer from one terminal, and "make -j" from another.
>
> Lennart
>
>    
Really, who uses Linux that is not a geek?

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