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From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 23:03:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040523210313.GA16310@ugly.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405240254.20171.kernel@kolivas.org>

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:54:19AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Your example of poor performance is one when the cpu performance is
> marginal to get exactly 30 fps processed and on the screen. The cpu
> overhead in 2.6 is slightly higher than 2.4 so a borderline case may
> be just pushed over. 
> 
"his" example is in fact mine. 2.4 ghz chew 25 fps. the total cpu load
is at 30-40% (depending on the selected deinterlacer algorithm).

> A program running as sched_fifo it will preempt absolutely everything 
> regardless of how it behaves.
>
errm ... right. i paid too little attention to this "tiny" detail.
*blush*

now i hacked tvtime to simply ignore v4l2 ... and guess what? it works
...
so the new theory is, that tvtime has some problem with v4l2 input
buffering ...

greetings

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-23 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-23 15:48 tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler Billy Biggs
2004-05-23 16:20 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2004-05-23 16:54 ` Con Kolivas
2004-05-23 17:20   ` Billy Biggs
2004-05-23 21:03   ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2004-05-24  8:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24  6:58     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24  7:14         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  9:34         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-23 22:49 ` szonyi calin
2004-05-24 19:38   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-25  8:49     ` Tobias Diedrich
2004-05-24  9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24 11:45   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2004-05-27 11:35 ` Redeeman

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