Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 10:39 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> No! This is not the same thing at all.
> 
> You are asking the coder to provide a policy judgement as to whether
> or
> not the users might care.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, other users' MP3 player, X processes, and
> keyboard response times can rot in hell whenever I'm busy writing out
> data at full blast. I don't give a rats arse about user interactivity,
> because my priority is to see the batch jobs complete.
> 

By your logic it's also broken to use cond_resched() in filesystem code.

Lee

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