Re: [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler

Nick Piggin
2003-12-16T00:01:05Z

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

>Hello Nick,
> This is somewhat unrelated to the current thread topic direction,
>but i noticed that your HT scheduler really behaves oddly when the box is
>used interactively. The one application which really seemed to be
>misbehaving was 'gaim', whenever someone typed a message X11 would pause
>for a second or so until the text displayed causing the mouse to jump
>around erratically. I can try help with this but unfortunately i can't do
>too much rebooting this week due to work (main workstation), but perhaps
>we can discuss it over a weekend. The system is 4x logical 2.0GHz.
>

Hi Zwane,
Thats weird. I assume you don't have problems with the regular SMP kernel.
Unfortunately I don't have an HT box I can do these sorts of tests with.
The first thing you could try is with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT 'N'.

Nick