more info. I've been playing around with this stuff this afternoon,
and decided to see what happens when I simply turn off the processor
affinity stuff totally. Result? can't tell any difference between
the normal kernel and this kernel. The mouse is still sluggish when
moving it, and <return>s are sluggish in producing prompts. Rik's
patch certainly makes this more sluggish but seems to prevent process
"bouncing". But even without the affinity stuff in goodness() (I
have all of that commented out so that it is basically returning
p->counter now all the time) it seems to work and feel about the
same. Using what I would call the "Linus approach" the KISS
principle says to toss what isn't improving things. :)
More as I test further... I'm still trying to figure out what
causes the sluggish mouse/prompt stuff, as it ought to want to
switch to those processes just as soon as they are unblocked. But
it doesn't...
And no, I don't believe Newton's theory about inertia applies
here. :)
Bob
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