Re: [PATCH] O2int 0307041440 for 2.5.74-mm1

[Wiktor Wodecki <wodecki@gmx.de>]

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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:59:08PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> Here is a patch against the current O1int patch in 2.5.74-mm1.
> Since the O1int didn't mean anything I thought I'd call this O2int.
> 
> This one wont blow you away but tames those corner cases.
> 
> Changes:
> The child penalty is set on 80% which means that tasks that wait on their 
> children have children forking just on the edge of the interactive delta so 
> they shouldn't starve their own children.
> 
> The non linear sleep avg boost is scaled down slightly to prevent this 
> particular boost from being capable of making a task highly interactive. This 
> makes very new tasks less likely to have a little spurt of too high priority.
> 
> Idle tasks now get their static priority over the full time they've been 
> running rather than starting again at 1 second. This makes it harder for idle 
> tasks to suddenly become highly interactive and _then_ fork an interactive 
> bomb. Not sure on this one yet.
> 
> The sched_exit penalty to parents of cpu hungry children is scaled accordingly 
> (was missed on the original conversion so works better now).
> 
> Hysteresis on interactive buffer removed (was unecessary).
> 
> Minor cleanup.
> 
> Known issue remaining:
> Mozilla acts just like X in that it is mostly interactive but has bursts of 
> heavy cpu activity so it gets the same bonus as X. However it makes X jerky 
> during it's heavy cpu activity, and might in some circumstances make audio 
> skip. Fixing this kills X smoothness as they seem very similar to the 
> estimator. Still haven't sorted a workaround for this one but I'm working on 
> it. Ingo's original timeslice granularity patch helps a little and may be 
> worth resuscitating (and the desktop only people can change the granularity 
> down to 10ms to satisfy their needs).
> 
> Con

this one behaves worse than the previou one. When loading a big page
(such as www.heise.de or www.ebay.de) and moving the mouse in circles 
it gets very jumpy.


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Regards,

Wiktor Wodecki

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