Re: [PATCH] scheduler hints
Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:23:53 +0200
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:11:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> The problem is that this may be abused. Someone nasty could
> write a cpu hog that drops a lot of hints about being
> interactive, starving real interactive programs.
>
> Generally, it degenerates into application programmers
> using _all_ the hints to get performance, so they
> can beat some competitor in benchmarks. And all
> other programs just get penalized.
I can see how that would be a problem.
If I didn't have the source to $programs.
Dave
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