Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

Gene Heskett
2007-05-02T08:11:37Z

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> - interactivity: precise load calculation and load smoothing
>
>This seems to help quite a bit.
>
>(5 second top sample)
>
> 2636 root 15 -5 19148 15m 5324 R 73 1.5 1:42.29 0
> amarok_libvisua 5440 root 20 0 320m 36m 8388 S 18 3.6 3:28.55
> 1 Xorg 4621 root 20 0 22776 18m 4168 R 12 1.8 0:00.63 1 cc1
> 4616 root 20 0 19456 13m 2200 R 9 1.3 0:00.43 0 cc1
>
>I no longer have to renice both X and Gforce to achieve a perfect
>display when they are sharing my box with a make -j2. X is displaying
>everything it's being fed beautifully with no help. I have to renice
>Gforce (amarok_libvisual), but given it's very heavy CPU usage, that
>seems perfectly fine.
>
>No regressions noticed so far. Box is _very_ responsive under load,
>seemingly even more so than with previous releases. That is purely
>subjective, but the first impression was very distinct.
>
> -Mike

And I have a make -j4 running to apply your patch Mike, and can't tell it from
here, no lag.

This is another keeper folks.

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