From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752182AbXCLTGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:06:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752190AbXCLTGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:06:51 -0400 Received: from smtp19.orange.fr ([80.12.242.19]:12095 "EHLO smtp19.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752182AbXCLTGu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:06:50 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20070312190649716.117781C00081@mwinf1921.orange.fr Subject: Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 From: Xavier Bestel To: Con Kolivas Cc: Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , linux kernel mailing list , ck list , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200703130549.47058.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200703111457.17624.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703122223.07048.kernel@kolivas.org> <1173710082.6326.49.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <200703130549.47058.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:06:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1173726403.9153.5.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit : > Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your > encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do? One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler is "strictly fair", won't that enable trivial DoS by just letting an user fork a multitude of CPU-intensive processes ? Xav