Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264904AbUF1IuA (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:50:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264906AbUF1IuA (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:50:00 -0400 Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.114]:30851 "HELO smtp017.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264904AbUF1It6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:49:58 -0400 Message-ID: <40DFDBB2.7010800@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:49:54 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Alfaro Solana CC: Con Kolivas , Michael Buesch , linux kernel mailing list , Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 References: <200406251840.46577.mbuesch@freenet.de> <200406261929.35950.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1088363821.1698.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200406272128.57367.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1088373352.1691.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <1088412045.1694.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> In-Reply-To: <1088412045.1694.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> 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: 800 Lines: 17 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > I have tested 2.6.7-bk10 plus from_2.6.7_to_staircase_7.7 patch and, > while it's definitively better than previous versions, it still feels a > little jerky when moving windows in X11 wrt to -mm3. Renicing makes it a > little bit smoother, but not as much as -mm3 without renicing. > You know, if renicing X makes it smoother, then that is a good thing IMO. X needs large amounts of CPU and low latency in order to get good interactivity, which is something the scheduler shouldn't give to a process unless it is told to. - 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/