Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992885AbXEBILh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 04:11:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992895AbXEBILh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 04:11:37 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]:45932 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992885AbXEBILd (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 04:11:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=uS8CJfO+u0gfKeC/twtV7nZPH1HFBdapUcjIv8CrwQlZzrRXnAmWpFgaPAn3qJdN8gT+Rd9jAzCmtnoIXtniq48YpLKCiHSWGQI7+52qMOVuME2BNvI1Qs7GvpeMzbwYXW3YLeWrfYGt1kKHqRyyvbWj8UruTKMAqzEKTBnLX7U= From: Gene Heskett Organization: Organization? very little To: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 04:11:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Williams , Thomas Gleixner , caglar@pardus.org.tr, Willy Tarreau , Mark Lord , Zach Carter , buddabrod , Balbir Singh References: <20070501212223.GA29867@elte.hu> <1178092794.8926.43.camel@Homer.simpson.net> In-Reply-To: <1178092794.8926.43.camel@Homer.simpson.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705020411.28457.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1661 Lines: 43 On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> - interactivity: precise load calculation and load smoothing > >This seems to help quite a bit. > >(5 second top sample) > > 2636 root 15 -5 19148 15m 5324 R 73 1.5 1:42.29 0 > amarok_libvisua 5440 root 20 0 320m 36m 8388 S 18 3.6 3:28.55 > 1 Xorg 4621 root 20 0 22776 18m 4168 R 12 1.8 0:00.63 1 cc1 > 4616 root 20 0 19456 13m 2200 R 9 1.3 0:00.43 0 cc1 > >I no longer have to renice both X and Gforce to achieve a perfect >display when they are sharing my box with a make -j2. X is displaying >everything it's being fed beautifully with no help. I have to renice >Gforce (amarok_libvisual), but given it's very heavy CPU usage, that >seems perfectly fine. > >No regressions noticed so far. Box is _very_ responsive under load, >seemingly even more so than with previous releases. That is purely >subjective, but the first impression was very distinct. > > -Mike And I have a make -j4 running to apply your patch Mike, and can't tell it from here, no lag. This is another keeper folks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. -- H.W. Longfellow - 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/