Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 15:07:10 EST


Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit :
> Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your
> encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do?

One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler
is "strictly fair", won't that enable trivial DoS by just letting an
user fork a multitude of CPU-intensive processes ?

Xav


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