Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

Szonyi Calin
2007-03-17T14:28:03Z

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:

> There are updated patches for 2.6.20, 2.6.20.2, 2.6.21-rc3 and 2.6.21-rc3-mm2
> to bring RSDL up to version 0.30 for download here:
>
> Full patches:
>
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.30.patch
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.2-rsdl-0.30.patch
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-sched-rsdl-0.30.patch
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2-rsdl-0.30.patch
>

Works fine here. Better than mainline. I can listen music from a video dvd
while browsing with opera and amule running. In mainline (CFQ scheduler) i
cannot do this because the sound skips badly. With RSDL there are very few
skips, they are shorter and related on a particular event - in this case
clicking a link in Opera browser.

Now system info:
CPU: AMD Duron 700 MHz, MB chipset VIAKT133 (UDMA 66), memory 384172 kB
(reported by /proc/meminfo).

Kernel is 2.6.21-rc3 #3 PREEMPT with RSDL 0.30 patches.

Thanks

Bye
Calin

P.S. As a side note: in mainline the cpu was distributed almost equally
between different tasks which favoured the big cpu hogs (amule and opera).
Now, in RSDL the mplayer gets a bigger stake

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