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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michel.=?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer_=3Cmichel=40tungstengraphics=2Ecom=3E?=@snowy.in.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ppc32: Weird process scheduling behaviour with 2.6.24-rc
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:41:49 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128121149.GA29867@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201511673.5923.46.camel@thor.sulgenrain.local>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:14:33AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >       * With CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED enabled, X becomes basically
> > >         unusable with a niced CPU hog, with or without top running. I
> > >         don't know when this started, possibly when this option was
> > >         first introduced.
> > 
> > Srivatsa found an issue that might explain the very bad behaviour under
> > group scheduling. But I gather you're not at all interested in this
> > feature?
> 
> That's right, but it's good to hear you have a lead there as well, and
> if you can't find any interested testers, let me know and I'll try.

Michel,
	Thanks for offering to test! The issue I found wrt preemption latency 
(when FAIR_USER_SCHED is turned on) is explained here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120148675326287

Does the patch in that URL help bring FAIR_USER_SCHED interactivity to the same
level as !FAIR_USER_SCHED?

-- 
Regards,
vatsa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 12:34 ppc32: Weird process scheduling behaviour with 2.6.24-rc Michel Dänzer
2008-01-22 14:56 ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-23 12:18   ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-23 12:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-23 13:14       ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-24  8:18         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-24  8:46       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-25 10:57         ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-23 12:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-25  6:54       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-25  7:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-25  7:25           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-25  8:50             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-26  4:07               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-26  4:13                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-26  5:07                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-26  5:15                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-26  9:26                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-26  5:07                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-27 16:13                     ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-28  4:25                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-28  8:16                         ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-28  8:50                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-28  9:14                         ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-28 12:11                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2008-01-28 12:32                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 12:53                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-28 12:56                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-29 10:14                               ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-28 13:11                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-25 11:34         ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-25 15:04           ` Michel Dänzer
2008-01-25 21:10             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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