Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

[Stephen Clark]

On 11/16/2010 03:31 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 16.11.10 21:03, Pekka Enberg (penberg@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
>    
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >      
> > > User-level configuration for something that should just work is
> > > annoying. We can do better.
> > >        
> > Completely agreed. Desktop users should not be required to fiddle with
> > kernel knobs from userspace to fix interactivity problems. Having sane
> > defaults applies to the kernel as much as it does to userspace.
> >      
> Jeez. Don't mentione the desktop. On the desktop this is compleltely
> irrelevant. There are not TTYs on the desktop. There's no "make -j" of
> the kernel tree on the desktop.
>
> The kernel patch discussed here *has* *no* *relevance* for normal users.
>
> The kernel patch discussed here is only relevant for people which start
> mplayer from one terminal, and "make -j" from another.
>
> Lennart
>
>    
Really, who uses Linux that is not a geek?

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