Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 06:57:17 EST


On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The
> extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by
> the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood),
> the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly
> has priority.

(I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.)

This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel. I was more or
less separating this one from the others, because I consider this
problem to be very severe. IMHO, this or something like it needs to get
upstream soon.

-Mike

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