From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Goddard?= Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ck] [benchmark] Interbench 2.6.16-ck/mm
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:01:32 +1100
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On Saturday 25 March 2006 14:19, Andr? Goddard Rosa wrote:
> On 3/24/06, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > Note that most of the differences between -ck and -mm on this benchmark
> > are due to the staircase cpu scheduler in -ck. It has staircase v14.2 as
> > recently posted to the mailing list.

> I just tried  2.6.16-mm1 with Mike Galbraith patches and it feels
> better in some situations (like opening a new tab inside konqueror or
> running a configure script ) but it gave some
> stops when playing amarok/gstreamer and doing regular desktop work.

Thanks.

I don't expect that staircase will be better in every single situation. 
However it will be better more often, especially when it counts (like audio 
or video skipping) and far more predictable. All that in 300 lines less 
code :)

Cheers,
Con
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