From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:16:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040325141625.GF1505@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403161849.i2GInfF0007372@eeyore.valparaiso.cl>
On Tue 16-03-04 14:49:41, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I
> > didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for
> > all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel
> > shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The
> > userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do,
> > should tell the kernel.
>
> People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their
> advantage...
You could heavily penalize process that lied... Or perhaps his user.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-25 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 15:16 Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 15:46 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-03-16 16:19 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 16:02 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-03-16 16:55 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 18:49 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-25 14:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-03-16 16:06 ` Eric
2004-03-16 16:46 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 19:23 ` Eric
2004-03-16 21:35 ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-16 23:05 ` Eric
2004-03-18 2:55 ` David Schwartz
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