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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:40:29 -0800
From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12
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Russell King wrote:
> 
> Rogier Wolff writes:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > What better interactivity ;)
> > Thus to me, 2.4 FEELS much less interactive. When I move windows they
> > don't follow the mouse in real-time.
> 
> Interesting observation: in a scrolling rxvt, kernel 2.0 is smoother than
> 2.2, which is smoother than 2.4.  I hope this trend isn't going to
> continue to 2.6. ;(

Could this be due to the shorter times caculated by the scheduler
recaculate code with the change that moved "nice" into the task_struct? 

George
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