On Wednesday 14 March 2007 20:13, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 02:31 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Can you try the attached patch please Al and Mike? It "dithers" the > > priority bitmap which tends to fluctuate the latency a lot more but in a > > cyclical fashion. This tends to make the max latency bound to a smaller > > value and should make it possible to run -nice tasks without killing the > > latency of the non niced tasks. Eg you could possibly run X nice -10 at a > > guess like we used to in 2.4 days. It's not essential of course, but is a > > workaround for Mike's testcase. > > Oh my. I thought I was all done staring mindlessly at gforce (chinese > water torture). Oh well, a few more brain cells dying of boredom won't > kill me I guess ;-) Will give it a shot.
No don't. It's buggy and you missed the warning. Boy were you lucky I was looking right now. -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
