Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270544AbTGZSCu (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:02:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270575AbTGZSCu (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:02:50 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:60348 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270544AbTGZSCs (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:02:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:19:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , LKML , kernel@kolivas.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Message-ID: <20030726181913.GY15452@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Marc-Christian Petersen , Felipe Alfaro Solana , LKML , kernel@kolivas.org, mingo@elte.hu References: <1059211833.576.13.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200307261142.43277.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307261142.43277.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 21 On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:46:45AM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > Now that I've tested 2.6.0-test-1-wli (William Lee Irwin's Tree) for over a > week, I thought about, that the problem might _not_ be only the O(1) > Scheduler, because -wli has changed almost nothing to the scheduler stuff, > it's almost 2.6.0-test1 code and running that kernel, my system is _alot_ > more responsive than 2.6.0-test1 or 2.6.0-test1-mm* or all the Oxint > scheduler fixes have ever been. > Strange no? > P.S.: I've not tested Ingo's G3 scheduler fix yet. More to come. I've no plausible explanation for this; perhaps the only possible one is that one of the algorithms that was sped up was behaving badly enough to interfere with scheduling. -- wli - 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/