Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

Ingo Molnar
2007-05-03T13:02:10Z

* Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu> wrote:

> I started up 12 glxgears to see the effect of CFS v8 on my Athlon64 X2
> 4200.
>
> Without this patch all the GL load was handled by the second core, the
> system only stressed the first core if other processes were also
> started, i.e. a kernel compilation. With this patch the load is evenly
> balanced across the two cores all the time.

ok, i didnt realize that it would affect x86_64 too. I'll do a -v9
release with this fix included.

> [...] And while doing make -j4 on the kernel, the 12 gears are still
> spinning about 185+ FPS and there are only slightly visible hiccups.
> Switching between workspaces, i.e. refreshing the large windows of
> Thunderbird and Firefox are done very quickly, the whole system is
> exceptionally responsive.

great! So it seems -v8 does improve OpenGL handling too :-)

> Thanks for this great work!

you are welcome :)

Ingo