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From: Voluspa <lista1@comhem.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O17int
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:55:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030820065515.059654d6.lista1@comhem.se> (raw)


On 2003-08-19 15:01:28 Con Kolivas wrote:

> Food for the starving masses.
>
> This patch prevents any single task from being able to starve the
> runqueue that it's on.

This is completely tru in my two test scenarios. Winex 3.1 running
"Baldurs Gate I" is as smooth as -O10 or -A3 and it is impossible to
trigger a permanent starvation. Switching to a text console and back, I
only hear brief, ca 1.5 seconds, "sound repeats" after which the game
recovers totally. Clicking the "Software standard BLT[on/off]", that
even triggered a short priority inversion in A3, has no impact at all.
Playability, for those who wonder, is an impressive 9 out of 10 ;-)

Blender 2.28 can not starve xmms one iota. Within blender itself, I can
cause 1 to 5 second freezes while doing a slow "world rotate", but that
is something the application programmers have to fix.

I see no throughput regression, and overall "feel" of the system is
great. A real keeper, this one.

Mvh
Mats Johannesson

             reply	other threads:[~2003-08-20  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-20  4:55 Voluspa [this message]
2003-08-20  8:00 ` [PATCH] O17int Mike Galbraith
2003-08-20 11:21   ` Con Kolivas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-20 22:51 Voluspa
2003-08-19 15:01 Con Kolivas
2003-08-19 16:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20  1:23   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20  9:19     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-19 18:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20  1:19   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20  8:53     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 16:27 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-08-20 16:42   ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-20 21:23   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21  5:26     ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21  7:53       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 11:46         ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21 15:14           ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 22:18             ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22  0:09               ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22 21:17                 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22  0:42               ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-22  5:34               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-22 20:48                 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-21 23:59             ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22  5:11               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21  5:30 ` Apurva Mehta

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