Con Kolivas wrote: > > >> >> >This message is to announce the first general public release of > > >> >> > the "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler.
Thanks a lot! > Just to make it clear. The purpose of this scheduler is at all costs to > maintain absolute fairness no matter what type of load it is put under. Great! > This means that if you heavily load up your machine without the use of > 'nice' then your interactive tasks _will_ slow down proportionately to the > amount of cpu you use. So doing make -j4 for example will make any other > task started in taht presence run precisely 1/5th speed, but they will > still be responsive, have low latency (and audio shouldn't skip for > example). That's just what it did, but when you "nice make -j4", things (gears) start to stutter. Is that due to the staircase? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
