Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:49:25 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Gawain Lynch <gawain@freda.homelinux.org>
Cc: prakashpublic@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cat@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: Terrible interactivity with 2.6.0-t9-mm3
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Gawain Lynch <gawain@freda.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:42, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Two things to try, please:
> > 
> > a) Is the problem from Linus's tree?  Try 2.6.0-test9 plus 
> > 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/linus.patch
> > 
> > b) The only significant scheduler change in mm3 was 
> > 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9/2.6.0-test9-mm3/broken-out/context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> > 	
> >    So please try -mm3 with the above patch reverted with
> > 
> > 	patch -R -p1 < context-switch-accounting-fix.patch
> > 
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> This is also easily reproducible here with just a kernel compile.
> 
> I have tried both a) and b) with b) not changing anything, but a) seems
> to work...  Anything more to try?
> 

Your report has totally confused me.  Are you saying that the jerkiness is
caused by linus.patch?  Or not?  Pleas try again ;)

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