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The maximum possible duration of the weight-raising period for interactive applications is limited to 13 seconds, as this is the time needed to load the largest application that we considered when tuning weight raising. Unfortunately, in such an evaluation, we did not consider the case of very slow virtual machines. For example, on a QEMU/KVM virtual machine - running in a slow PC; - with a virtual disk stacked on a slow low-end 5400rpm HDD; - serving a heavy I/O workload, such as the sequential reading of several files; mplayer takes 23 seconds to start, if constantly weight-raised. To address this issue, this commit conservatively sets the upper limit for weight-raising duration to 25 seconds. Signed-off-by: Davide Sapienza <sapienza.dav@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.