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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@hoyletech.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:31:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233311516.6280.4.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233310700.7816.7.camel@localhost>

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 05:18 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:

> Ok, I'm now running:
> 
> Linux nightmare 2.6.28.2-nhoyle #1 SMP Fri Jan 30 04:50:03 EST 2009
> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Initial conclusion is that whatever defects were corrected (non
> SCHED_IDLE specific defects that is), the newer kernel version does the
> trick.  Video playback is as smooth as ever when running foldingathome
> at simple nice 19 priority.

Good to hear, thanks for testing.

Peter, since 27 is a long term maintenance kernel, do you think 1af5f73
and 046e7f7 (at least) are 27.stable candidates?

	-Mike




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30  5:49 scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  6:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30  6:40   ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  7:21     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30  7:59       ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  8:07         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30  8:55           ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  9:29             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 22:12           ` Brian Rogers
2009-01-31  5:38             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-31  9:08               ` Mike Galbraith
2009-02-02 23:57                 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-02-09 15:19                   ` Brian Rogers
2009-02-09 15:51                     ` Greg KH
2009-01-30  8:16         ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 13:56           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 14:15         ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30  6:17 ` V.Radhakrishnan
2009-01-30  6:48   ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 14:15     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30  6:24 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30  6:52   ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  7:09     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30  8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30  9:00   ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30  9:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 10:18       ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 10:31         ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2009-01-30 10:40           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 10:50             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-02-02 17:23 ` Lennart Sorensen

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