Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] mm: yield during swap prefetching

[Ingo Molnar]

* Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > We do have SCHED_BATCH but even that doesn't really have the desired
> > effect. I know how much yield sucks and I actually want it to suck as much
> > as yield does.
> 
> Thinking some more on this I wonder if SCHED_BATCH isn't a strong 
> enough scheduling hint if it's not suitable for such an application. 
> Ingo do you think we could make SCHED_BATCH tasks always wake up on 
> the expired array?

yep, i think that's a good idea. In the worst case the starvation 
timeout should kick in.

	Ingo
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