Re: [patch 1/4] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP

[Nick Piggin]

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:35:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:

> Doesn't the provided solution is just a in-kernel variant of the
> SCHED_FIFO set from userspace? Why kernel should be able to mark some
> users as having higher priority?
> What if workload of the system is targeted to not the maximum TCP
> performance, but maximum other-task performance, which will be broken
> with provided patch.

David's line of thinking for a solution sounds better to me. This patch
does not prevent the process from being preempted (for potentially a long
time), by any means.

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