Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler-H6/H7/I0 and nice +19

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:49:09 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

> The 2.4.17-I0 patch makes things much better here. Does this one
> suffer from the same bugs that the 2.5.2 version has?

i'll do a -I3 patch in a minute.

> Major difference from older version of the patch is that top shows
> many processes with PRI 0. I am not sure this is intended?

yes, it's intended. Lots of interactive (idle) tasks. Right now the time
under which we detect a task as interactive is pretty short, but if you
run 'top' with 's 0.3' then you can see how tasks grow/shrink their
priorities, depending on the load they generate.

Ingo

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