Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263040AbTIGHCp (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:02:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263075AbTIGHCp (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:02:45 -0400 Received: from static-ctb-210-9-247-166.webone.com.au ([210.9.247.166]:56070 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263040AbTIGHCn (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:02:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5AD802.8080702@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:02:26 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrew Morton , rml@tech9.net, jyau_kernel_dev@hotmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms References: <000101c374a3$2d2f9450$f40a0a0a@Aria> <1062878664.3754.12.camel@boobies.awol.org> <3F5ABD3A.7060709@cyberone.com.au> <20030906231856.6282cd44.akpm@osdl.org> <3F5AD03E.5070506@cyberone.com.au> <20030906234545.46c990d6.akpm@osdl.org> <3F5AD75A.6080703@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F5AD75A.6080703@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 29 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> >> >> Also, I'm concerned that sched-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A3 caused slowdowns and >> Andrew's patch caused speedups and they just cancelled out. Let's get >> Andrew's patch into Linus's tree and see if it speeds things up. If it >> does, we probably still have a problem. >> >> > > The slowdowns are due to CPUs becoming idle too long, and the patches > fix that. If CPUs aren't idle, the patch will have no effect. Oh... I guess this is what you were saying? - 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/