Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

Lee Revell
2005-08-20T03:04:21Z

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:13, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > I agree that tweaking the scheduler is probably pointless, as long as X
> > is burning gazillions of CPU cycles redrawing things that don't need to
> > be redrawn.
> >
> > Then again even the OSX scheduler has hooks for the GUI. Presumably
> > they concluded that the desktop responsiveness problem could not be
> > adequately solved within the framework of a general purpose UNIX
> > scheduler.
>
> It's an X problem and it's being fixed. Get over it, we're not tuning the
> scheduler for a broken app.

I wasn't saying it would be a smart thing to do, the OSX thing is
interesting that's all. I think we're in violent agreement about the X
problem, do you have a link to any specific work on this (off list)?

Lee