Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

[Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 13:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > update for lkml readers: this is some really 'catastrophic' condition 
> > triggering on your box. Here ogg123 just never skips on an older 750 
> > MHz box, which is 4-5 times slower than your 2GHz box - while i have 
> > _fourty nice-0 infinite loops_ running. I.e. at this clearly 
> > ridiculous load, at just 2.5% of CPU time ogg123 is just chugging 
> > along nicely and never leaves out a beat.
> 
> Kasper, just to exclude the possibility that this is somehow related to 
> IO scheduling, could you copy the OGG file over to /dev/shm and play it 
> from there? Do you still get the bad skips?
Just copied to a tmpfs, and it still skips badly.

in response to your question, Ingo, yes, i see those atleast 0 ms
messages.

I am not running esd, i use alsa directly from ogg123.

but its not just ogg123, mplayer does it too. just moving a window can
trigger it. even scrolling in my maillist causes it.

and this ONLY happens on cfs, not vanilla, not staircase, not sd.

while i look at top, the load average is 0.11

its definetly not an IO issue, cause i just tried creating some IO load,
like reading files, it doesent skip, but moving windows triggers it
better than anything(mplayer seems more sensitive than ogg123), it seems
anything X-related makes it explode..

tried looking for buffer stuff in /proc/asound, couldnt find anything,
im using the via82xx driver.


> 
> 	Ingo
>