Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272652AbTHELHJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:07:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272653AbTHELHI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:07:08 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:28318 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272652AbTHELHF (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:07:05 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:12:12 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana References: <200308050207.18096.kernel@kolivas.org> <200308052056.38861.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F2F8F0E.5060108@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F2F8F0E.5060108@cyberone.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308052112.12553.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1146 Lines: 25 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:03, Nick Piggin wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > >Then it takes longer to become interactive. Take 2.6.0-test2 vanilla - > > audio apps can take up to a minute to be seen as fully interactive; > > whether this is a problem for your hardware or not is another matter but > > clearly they are interactive using <1% cpu time on the whole. > > I think this is a big problem, a minute is much too long. I guess its > taking this long to build up because X needs a great deal of inertia > so that it can stay in a highly interactive state right? > > If so then it seems the interactivity estimator does not have enough > information to work properly for X. In which case maybe X needs to be > reniced, or backboosted, or have _something_ done to help out. Well we're in agreement there. That's what all this work I've done is about. You'll see I've not been just tweaking numbers. Con - 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/