Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030184AbWAWVLM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:11:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030190AbWAWVLM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:11:12 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:34219 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030184AbWAWVLL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:11:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 From: Lee Revell To: Paolo Ornati Cc: Peter Williams , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Han , Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III , Jake Moilanen In-Reply-To: <20060123221017.2d393c83@localhost> References: <43D00887.6010409@bigpond.net.au> <20060121114616.4a906b4f@localhost> <43D2BE83.1020200@bigpond.net.au> <20060123210918.54d4fc75@localhost> <1138047938.21481.11.camel@mindpipe> <20060123215231.04b38886@localhost> <1138049979.21481.25.camel@mindpipe> <20060123221017.2d393c83@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:11:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1138050668.21481.30.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1148 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:10 +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:38 -0500 > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Maybe this is normal and depends on the way X sleeps or something... > > > > > > > Because the scheduler favors interactive tasks (aka those which spend a > > large % of time waiting on external events) and X is only considered > > interactive when the mouse is being moved. When glxgears is running > > it's CPU bound and is therefore penalized. > > ?? > > The reverse... lower priority number means BETTER priority. So Actually > X is penalized when I'm moving the mouse. > > And running "glxgears" doesn't make X CPU bounded if direct rendering > is enabled -- it is GPU bounded... > > In fact I can run "glxgears" and still have 97% of IDLE CPU time. > Ah, never mind, I misread your report then, I was thinking in terms of RT priorities... Lee - 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/