Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932133AbVLaKwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:52:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932134AbVLaKwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:52:17 -0500 Received: from 213-140-2-72.ip.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.72]:31673 "EHLO aa005msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932133AbVLaKwQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:52:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:52:13 +0100 From: Paolo Ornati To: Paolo Ornati Cc: Peter Williams , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Ingo Molnar , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [SCHED] wrong priority calc - SIMPLE test case Message-ID: <20051231115213.4a2e01ba@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20051231113446.3ad19dbc@localhost> References: <20051227190918.65c2abac@localhost> <20051227224846.6edcff88@localhost> <200512281027.00252.kernel@kolivas.org> <20051230145221.301faa40@localhost> <43B5E78C.9000509@bigpond.net.au> <20051231113446.3ad19dbc@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 26 On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:34:46 +0100 Paolo Ornati wrote: > > It is a patch against the 2.6.15-rc7 kernel and includes some other > > scheduling patches from the -mm kernels. > > Yes, this fixes both my test-case (transcode & little program), they > get priority 25 instead of ~16. > > But the priority of DD is now ~23 and so it still suffers a bit: I forgot to mention that even the others "interactive" processes don't get a good priority too. Xorg for example, while only moving the cursor around, gets priority 23/24. And when cpu-eaters are running (at priority 25) it isn't happy at all, the cursor begins to move in jerks and so on... -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.15-rc7-lial on x86_64 - 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/