Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

Ray Lee
2007-05-19T20:56:06Z

On 5/19/07, Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> wrote:
> El Sat, 19 May 2007 16:02:37 -0400, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> escribió:
>
> > The chart is at http://www.tmr.com/~davidsen/sched_smooth_01.html for
> > your viewing pleasure. The only "tuned" result was with sd, since what I
> > observed was so bad using the default settings. If any scheduler
> > developers would like me to try other tunings or new versions let me know.
>
> How useful is glxgears as benchmark here? The X.org people has been saying
> for ages that "glxgears is not a benchmark".

If you hold everything in the system constant other than the
scheduler, then it's a useful measure of the effects the scheduler has
upon glxgears, regardless of how well or poorly written it might be.

I suspect the X.org people are correct in regards how most people
would try to use it, which would be measurements against different
video cards, CPUs, etc.