Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:33:53 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, davids@webmaster.com,
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       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield
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* Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

>> heh, thanks :) For which workload does it make the biggest difference 
>> for you? (and compared to what other scheduler you used before? 
>> 2.6.22?)
> ..
>
> Heh.. I'm just a very unsophisticated desktop user, and I like it when 
> Thunderbird and Firefox are unaffected by the "make -j3" kernel builds 
> that are often running in another window.  BIG difference there.
>
> And on the cool side, the Swarm game (swarm.swf) is a great example of 
> something that used to get jerky really fast whenever anything else 
> was running, and now it really doesn't seem to be affected by 
> anything. (I don't really play computer games, but this one is has a 
> very retro feel..).

nice! Do you feel any difference between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc for these 
workloads? (if you've tried .24 already)

	Ingo
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