Re: Clock skips (?) with 2.6 and games

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-04T10:22:33Z

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:40:28PM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>
> > Strange, if I enable Highmem support and set CONFIG_NR_CPUS from 4 to 8,
> > 4 penguins are showing up...
>
> It should do it with the NR_CPUS change only, sounds like yet another APIC
> ID SMP bootstrap problem.

yes, and now with NR_CPUS == 8 Jan can compare apples to apples. So I
would suggest you to repeat the interactivity test, first w/o desktop
then w/ desktop. My tree has a o1 scheduler, though quite different
from any other version (especially for HT machines).