Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271308AbTGQAzR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:55:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271310AbTGQAzR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:55:17 -0400 Received: from mail-03.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.35]:10757 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271308AbTGQAzD (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:55:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3F15F279.7060909@ii.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:48:57 +0800 From: Wade User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030618 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O6int for interactivity References: <200307170030.25934.kernel@kolivas.org> <1058402012.3f15eedcc06f2@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <1058402012.3f15eedcc06f2@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2476 Lines: 90 Con Kolivas wrote: > Quoting Davide Libenzi : > > >>On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Con Kolivas wrote: >> >> >>>O*int patches trying to improve the interactivity of the 2.5/6 scheduler >> >>for >> >>>desktops. It appears possible to do this without moving to nanosecond >>>resolution. >>> >>>This one makes a massive difference... Please test this to death. >>> >>>Changes: >>>The big change is in the way sleep_avg is incremented. Any amount of sleep >>>will now raise you by at least one priority with each wakeup. This causes >>>massive differences to startup time, extremely rapid conversion to >> >>interactive >> >>>state, and recovery from non-interactive state rapidly as well (prevents X >>>stalling after thrashing around under high loads for many seconds). >>> >>>The sleep buffer was dropped to just 10ms. This has the effect of causing >> >>mild >> >>>round robinning of very interactive tasks if they run for more than 10ms. >> >>The >> >>>requeuing was changed from (unlikely()) to an ordinary if.. branch as this >>>will be hit much more now. >> >>Con, I'll make a few notes on the code and a final comment. >> >> >> >> >>>-#define MAX_BONUS ((MAX_USER_PRIO - MAX_RT_PRIO) * > > PRIO_BONUS_RATIO / > >>100) >> >>>+#define MAX_BONUS (40 * PRIO_BONUS_RATIO / 100) >> >>Why did you bolt in the 40 value ? It really comes from (MAX_USER_PRIO - >>MAX_RT_PRIO) >>and you will have another place to change if the number of slots will >>change. If you want to clarify better, stick a comment. > > > Granted. Will revert. If you don't understand it you shouldn't be fiddling with > it I agree. > > >> >> >>>+ p->sleep_avg = (p->sleep_avg * MAX_BONUS / runtime + 1) > > * runtime / > >>MAX_BONUS; >> >>I don't have the full code so I cannot see what "runtime" is, but if >>"runtime" is the time the task ran, this is : >> >>p->sleep_avg ~= p->sleep_avg + runtime / MAX_BONUS; >> >>(in any case a non-decreasing function of "runtime" ) >>Are you sure you want to reward tasks that actually ran more ? > > > > That was the bug. Runtime was supposed to be limited to MAX_SLEEP_AVG. Fix will > be posted very soon. Should any harm come from running 06int without the phantom patch mentioned? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/