Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

Xavier Bestel
2007-03-12T09:59:50Z

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:22 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly
> > unless niced tasks are niced all the way down to 19?
>
> Fortunately most client server models dont usually have mutually exclusive cpu
> use like this X case. There are many things about X that are still a little
> (/me tries to think of a relatively neutral term)... wanting. :(

I'd say the problem is less with X than with Xlib, which is heavily
round-trip-based. Fortunately XCB (its successor) seeks to be more
asynchronous.

Xav