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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about fair schedulers
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:06:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070623090655.36d1794c@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706230007.15622.info@gnebu.es>

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:07:15 +0200
Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es> wrote:

> My conclusion is that SD behaves as expected: it's more fair. But for a 
> desktop, shouldn't an "intelligently unfair" scheduler be better?

"intelligently unfair" is what the current scheduler is (because of
interactivity estimator).

When it works (say 90% of the time) the desktop feels really good...
but when it doesn't it can be a disaster.


Look this for example:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/6aa5c93c379ae9e1/98ab31c0e6fed2ee?&hl=en#98ab31c0e6fed2ee

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.22-rc5-g0864a4e2 on x86_64

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 22:07 Question about fair schedulers Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23  0:55 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-23  7:46   ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23 16:35     ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-23 17:28       ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-24 20:57         ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-24 19:36     ` David Schwartz
2007-06-26 12:19     ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-27 12:39   ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23  7:06 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2007-06-23  8:01   ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23  8:23     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-23  9:18       ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23  9:28         ` Russell Harmon
2007-06-23 10:30         ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-23 10:45           ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23 10:50             ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-23 11:00               ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23 11:05                 ` Tom Spink
2007-06-23 11:26                   ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23 11:51                     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-27 20:28                     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-23 13:26     ` Paolo Ornati
2007-06-23 13:56       ` Alberto Gonzalez
2007-06-23 14:28         ` Paolo Ornati

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