Re: [interbench numbers] Re: interactive task starvation

[Con Kolivas]

On Friday 24 March 2006 16:02, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I've separated the buglet fix parts from the rest, so there are four
> patches instead of two.  I've also hidden the knobs, though for the
> testing phase at least, I personally think it would be better to leave
> the knobs there for people to twiddle.  Something Willy said indicated
> to me that 'credit' would be more palatable than 'grace', so I've
> renamed and updated comments to match.  I think it might look better,
> but can't know since 'grace' was perfectly fine for my taste buds ;-)
>
> I'll post as soon as I do some more cleanup pondering and verification.

Great. I suggest making the base patch have the values hard coded as #defines 
and then have a patch on top that turns those into userspace tunables we can 
hand tune while in -mm which can then be dropped if/when merged upstream.

Cheers,
Con
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