On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> > The first addresses some basic responsivity issues, and I think it's
> > clean and safe:
>
> heh, cool patch :) it's somewhat amusing that complete scheduler
> rewrites are being done due to 'solve' some seemingly fundamental
> problems, then finally someone tries and does understand the
> current scheduler and finds the real cause ;)
It's not the real cause.
If we want to do something useful with PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY
we should start by trying to reschedule the app on it's
previous CPU and not on the (random) current->cpu...
The error is in reschedule_idle() and not in goodness(),
schedule() or wherever you want to put it.
regards,
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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