Re: [PATCH] 2.5.72-mm3 O(1) interactivity enhancements

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:15, Con Kolivas wrote:

> For those who aren't familiar, you've utilised the secret desktop weapon:
> 
> +		if (!(p->time_slice % MIN_TIMESLICE) &&
> 
> This is not how Ingo intended it. This is my desktop bastardising of the 
> patch. It was originally about 50ms (timeslice granularity). This changes it 
> to 10ms which means all running tasks round robin every 10ms - this is what I 
> use in -ck and is great for a desktop but most probably of detriment 
> elsewhere. Having said that, it does nice things to desktops :-)

I lost the track to Ingo's patch sometime ago, so I borrowed it from
your latest patchset ;-) It does really nice things on desktops. It
brings 2.5 to a new life on my 700Mhz laptop.

What impact would have increasing MIN_TIMESLICE from 10 to, let's say,
50?

Thanks!