Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753150Ab0AVJZZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:25:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753104Ab0AVJZV (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:25:21 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55368 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752789Ab0AVJZT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:25:19 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Oj2RgVvNOS0AnSI5bbM1c7HZh/ABlovoTCXjG/x XoKgp8ZFsJnDQv Subject: Re: scheduler vs hardware? (was Re: another i7 (linux) bug?) From: Mike Galbraith To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Luca Zini , aagaande@gmail.com, rdelcueto@hotmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel , Alex Chiang In-Reply-To: <1264150272.4283.1361.camel@laptop> References: <201001211258.23499.luca.zini@gmail.com> <20100121215438.GK17684@ldl.fc.hp.com> <1264144758.8074.22.camel@marge.simson.net> <1264150272.4283.1361.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:25:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1264152314.12530.8.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68000000000000005 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 28 On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:51 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > My laptop does: > > > # time nice -n 19 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null > real 0m3.273s > user 0m3.217s > sys 0m0.022s > > > # time nice -n 0 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null > real 0m1.121s > user 0m1.102s > sys 0m0.013s I don't see any way that can be scheduler (knocks wood). Could it be cpufreq? IIRC there is or was an ignore nice gizmo in there. -Mike -- 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/