Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:37:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:37:30 -0500 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:46853 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:37:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3C50B6BD.8080307@lexus.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:37:01 -0800 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Testing the effects of the low latency patch In-Reply-To: <3C50AC22.7090203@lexus.com> <3C50AEE1.2300BB05@zip.com.au> <3C50B185.40006@lexus.com> <3C50B37C.9EACC94B@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It was during gameplay, no dbench running, which as it turns out is a workload of interest for me - Joe Andrew Morton wrote: >J Sloan wrote: > >>>>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes >>>>------------- >>>>... >>>>7.6 1 >>>>7.8 1 >>>>21.1 1 >>>> >>>This is the stock kernel. In twenty minutes you suffered >>>precisely *one* scheduling overrun which is perceptible >>>by a human. The rest are much shorter than your monitor's >>>refresh interval. Interesting, yes? >>> >>Yes, the stock kernel is much improved from >>say 6 months ago. I will take a look at the >>kernel that shipped with my distro just for >>giggles as well... >> > >Was you histogram generated during a game session, or during >dbench? write()-intensive workloads are the main common >offender. > >- > - 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/