Re: Terrible interactivity with 2.6.0-t9-mm3

Andrew Morton
2003-11-17T02:44:32Z

Gawain Lynch <gawain@freda.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Two things to try, please:
> >
> > a) Is the problem from Linus's tree? Try 2.6.0-test9 plus
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/linus.patch
> >
> > b) The only significant scheduler change in mm3 was
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> >
> > So please try -mm3 with the above patch reverted with
> >
> > patch -R -p1 < context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> >
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> This is also easily reproducible here with just a kernel compile.
>
> I have tried both a) and b) with b) not changing anything, but a) seems
> to work... Anything more to try?
>

Your report has totally confused me. Are you saying that the jerkiness is
caused by linus.patch? Or not? Pleas try again ;)