Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

[Mark Lord]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> well, i just simulated a runaway X at nice -19 on CFS (on a UP box), and 
> while the box was a tad laggy, i was able to killall it without 
> problems, within 2 seconds that also included a 'su'. So it's not an 
> issue in CFS, it can be turned off, and because every distro has another 
> way to renice Xorg, this is a convenience hack until Xorg standardizes 
> it into some xorg.conf field. (It also makes sure that X isnt preempted 
> by other userspace stuff while it does timing-sensitive operations like 
> setting the video modes up or switching video modes, etc.)

Good!
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