Re: [PATCH] 2.5.72-mm3 O(1) interactivity enhancements

From: Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 13:54:04 EST


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:15, Con Kolivas wrote:

> For those who aren't familiar, you've utilised the secret desktop weapon:
>
> + if (!(p->time_slice % MIN_TIMESLICE) &&
>
> This is not how Ingo intended it. This is my desktop bastardising of the
> patch. It was originally about 50ms (timeslice granularity). This changes it
> to 10ms which means all running tasks round robin every 10ms - this is what I
> use in -ck and is great for a desktop but most probably of detriment
> elsewhere. Having said that, it does nice things to desktops :-)

I lost the track to Ingo's patch sometime ago, so I borrowed it from
your latest patchset ;-) It does really nice things on desktops. It
brings 2.5 to a new life on my 700Mhz laptop.

What impact would have increasing MIN_TIMESLICE from 10 to, let's say,
50?

Thanks!

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