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
next prev parent 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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