Re: 2.5.74-mm1

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 01:28, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > It now tolerates window dragging on this unaccelerated moderately high
> > resolution VGA without any sound dropouts.  There are still dropouts
> > while scrolling in Mozilla, so it acts much like 2.5.73+Con's patch, as
> > expected.
>
> Update: dropouts still do occur while moving windows, but rarely.  When
> they do occur, they are severe.  A debian dist-upgrade just caused a
> dropout - and another just now, about 3 seconds long.  I feel that tweaking
> is only going to get us so far with this.  The situation re scheduling in
> 2.5 feels much as the vm situation did in 2.3, in other words, we're
> halfway down a long twisty road that ends with something that works, after
> having tried and failed at many flavors of tweaking and tuning.  Ultimately
> the problem will be solved by redesign, and probably not just limited to
> kernel code.

Have you taken the next twist in the road? I posted a second patch which 
should go on top of what's in 2.5.74-mm1 a couple of days ago. Just in case, 
here is a link to it.

http://kernel.kolivas.org/2.5/

it's called patch-O2int-0307041440

It makes significant headway in smoothing the corner cases. I need testing at 
each point before I can post another update, and am doing much less frequent 
smaller updates now, with the aim of having no more than one patch for each 
-mm, so I can have a decent sized audience for each change.

Andrew can you please apply this one on top in the next -mm if you are to 
continue testing this patch series.

Con