Re: idea: set a niceness value under which a process won't awaken suspended CPU

2012-03-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
One problem you can get into with this scheme is a kind of priority inversion. If the low priority process does: fd = open(/foo/bar, O_RDWR); flock(fd, LOCK_EX); and the high priority process then also does: fd = open(/foo/bar, O_RDWR); flock(fd, LOCK_EX); and

Re: idea: set a niceness value under which a process won't awaken suspended CPU

2012-03-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:50:16AM -0800, Jon Nettleton wrote: One problem you can get into with this scheme is a kind of priority inversion. If the low priority process does: fd = open(/foo/bar, O_RDWR); flock(fd, LOCK_EX); and the high priority process then also

Re: idea: set a niceness value under which a process won't awaken suspended CPU

2012-03-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 02:19:43AM -0800, Jon Nettleton wrote: One problem you can get into with this scheme is a kind of priority inversion. If the low priority process does: fd = open(/foo/bar, O_RDWR); flock(fd, LOCK_EX); and the high priority process

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-11 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 12:22:17PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: = There is a new schedulear/timer patch from Lennert -- mystery minutes-long hangs should be gone for real now. Do you have any references like a git-commit or discussion on a mailinglist for this? I'd like

Re: New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-09 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Niels de Vos wrote: = There is a new schedulear/timer patch from Lennert -- mystery minutes-long hangs should be gone for real now. Do you have any references like a git-commit or discussion on a mailinglist for this? I'd like to match

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

2011-08-08 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 03:44:09PM +0100, Niels de Vos wrote: = There is a new schedulear/timer patch from Lennert -- mystery minutes-long hangs should be gone for real now. Do you have any references like a git-commit or discussion on a mailinglist for this? I'd like to match this

Re: [PATCH] Implement reboot/shutdown for XO-1.75.

2011-04-26 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 06:02:18PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Note that the reboot code depends on an EC implementation for power_cycle. Looks good. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

2007-11-17 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:52:30AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: And sure it is not very convenient for developpers, because developpers typically do not want to think about this stuff and would be happy to have their IDE directly plugged into production or user systems. But that's basic