Re: [SCHED] wrong priority calc - SIMPLE test case

[Con Kolivas]

On Saturday 14 January 2006 03:15, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 01:34 AM 1/14/2006 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:01, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > At 09:51 PM 1/13/2006 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > >See my followup patches that I have posted following "[PATCH 0/5]
> > > > sched - interactivity updates". The first 3 patches are what you
> > > > tested. These patches are being put up for testing hopefully in -mm.
> > >
> > > Then the (buggy) version of my simple throttling patch will need to
> > > come out.  (which is OK, I have a debugged potent++ version)
> >
> >Your code need not be mutually exclusive with mine. I've simply damped the
> >current behaviour. Your sanity throttling is a good idea.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that they're mutually exclusive, and after doing
> some testing, I concluded that it (or something like it) is definitely
> still needed.  The version that's in mm2 _is_ buggy however, so ripping it
> back out wouldn't hurt my delicate little feelings one bit.  In fact, it
> would give me some more time to instrument and test integration with your
> changes.

Ok I've communicated this to Andrew (cc'ed here too) so he should remove your
patch pending a new version from you.

> (Which I think are good btw because they remove what I considered
> to be warts; the pipe and uninterruptible sleep barriers.

Yes I felt your abuse wrt to these in an earlier email...

> Um... try irman2
> now... pure evilness)

Hrm I've been using staircase which is immune for so long I'd all but
forgotten about this test case. Looking at your code I assume your changes
should help this?

Con
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