Re: scheduler vs hardware? (was Re: another i7 (linux) bug?)

Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-22T09:35:54Z

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:25 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:51 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > My laptop does:
> >
> >
> > # time nice -n 19 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
>
> > real 0m3.273s
> > user 0m3.217s
> > sys 0m0.022s
> >
> >
> > # time nice -n 0 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
>
> > real 0m1.121s
> > user 0m1.102s
> > sys 0m0.013s
>
> I don't see any way that can be scheduler (knocks wood). Could it be
> cpufreq? IIRC there is or was an ignore nice gizmo in there.

That's a laptop with full desktop bloat, I'm sure either firefox or evo
farted, or both.