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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:18:24 +1100
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:33, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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)

And also, I wonder what the average timeslice and number of context
switches is between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-4. Would be interesting to see.
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