From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993078AbXCIIjX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:39:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993083AbXCIIjX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:39:23 -0500 Received: from mail31.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.102]:51908 "EHLO mail31.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993078AbXCIIjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:39:22 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:39:05 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <20070309053931.GA10459@waste.org> <20070309075358.GA10394@waste.org> <20070309082057.GB10394@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20070309082057.GB10394@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703091939.05535.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 09 March 2007 19:20, Matt Mackall wrote: > And I've just rebooted with NO_HZ and things are greatly improved. At > idle, Beryl effects are silky smooth (possibly better than stock) and > shows less load. Under 'make', Beryl is still responsive as is Galeon. > No sign of lagging mouse or typing. > > Under make -j 5, things are intermittent. Galeon scrolling is > sometimes still responsive, but Beryl, terminals and mouse still drag > quite a bit. I just replied before you sent this one out I think our messages passed each other across the ocean somewhere. I don't quite get what combination of factors you're saying here caused great improvement. Was it enabling NO_HZ on mainline cpu scheduler or disabling NO_HZ or on RSDL? -- -ck