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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] sched-2.5.64-D3, more interactivity changes
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
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> the attached patch (against BK-curr) implements more finegrained timeslice
> distribution, without changing the total balance of timeslices, by
> recalculating the priority of CPU-bound tasks at a finer granularity, and
> by roundrobining tasks. Right now this new granularity is 50 msecs (the
> default timeslice for default priority tasks is 100 msecs).

I've been running this on the problematic desktop for a couple of days now. 
All interactivity problems are 100% solved.  Smooth, fast, responsive,
unjerky, etc.   Congratulations and thanks; it is a big win.

The various starvation situations all appear to be fixed.

> Could people, who can reproduce 'audio skips' kind of problems even with
> BK-curr, give this patch a go?

I do not test for multimedia performance and cannot comment on this.

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