From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757212Ab0JUK7K (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:59:10 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59161 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757043Ab0JUK7I (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:59:08 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: Re: 2.6.36-ck1 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:58:59 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201010211208.54401.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-375327.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101020 Thunderbird/3.1.5 In-Reply-To: <201010211208.54401.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/21/2010 04:08 AM, Con Kolivas wrote: > These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity > with specific emphasis on the desktop, but suitable to any workload. > > > Apply to 2.6.36: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.36/2.6.36-ck1/patch-2.6.36-ck1.bz2 Thanks for updating your patches. Applied to Gentoo's 2.6.36 and works as advertised so far. > Those following the development of the patches for interactivity at massive > load, I have COMPLETELY DROPPED them as they introduce regressions at normal > workloads, and I cannot under any circumstances approve changes to improve > behaviour at ridiculous workloads which affect regular ones. I still see > precisely zero point at optimising for absurd workloads. Proving how many > un-niced jobs you can throw at your kernel compiles is not a measure of one's > prowess. It is just a mindless test. I never felt the need for a "make -j256" on my Core2 Duo, so losing that "functionality" is of no consequence, at least here.