Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Antonio Vargas wrote: IIRC, about 2 or three years ago (or maybe on the 2.6.10 timeframe), there was a patch which managed to pass the interactive from one app to another when there was a pipe or udp connection between them. This meant that a marked-as-interactive xterm would, when blocked waiti

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-18 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 18 March 2007, schreef Con Kolivas: > On Monday 12 March 2007 22:26, Al Boldi wrote: > > Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Monday 12 March 2007 15:42, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > > On Monday 12 March 2007 08:52, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > > > And thank you! I think I know

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 3/12/07, jos poortvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Con Kolivas: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 01:14, Al Boldi wrote: > > Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > > The higher priority one always get 6-7ms whereas the lower priority > > > > > one runs 6-7ms and then one larger p

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Con Kolivas: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 01:14, Al Boldi wrote: > > Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > > The higher priority one always get 6-7ms whereas the lower priority > > > > > one runs 6-7ms and then one larger perfectly bound expiration > > > > > amount. Basically ex

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread michael chang
On 3/12/07, jos poortvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Al Boldi: > > It only takes one negatively nice'd proc to affect X adversely. goes faster than ever)? Or is this really the scheduler's fault? Take this with a grain of salt, but, I don't think this is the

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-12 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Monday 12 March 2007, schreef Al Boldi: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > The higher priority one always get 6-7ms whereas the lower priority > > > > one runs 6-7ms and then one larger perfectly bound expiration amount. > > > > Basically exactly as I'd expect. The higher priority task gets > > > > pr

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-06 Thread Al Boldi
Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:10 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Hah I just wish gears would go away. If I get hardware where it runs at > > just the right speed it looks like it doesn't move at all. On other > > hardware the wheels go backwards and forwards where the screen refresh

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:10 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > Hah I just wish gears would go away. If I get hardware where it runs at just > the right speed it looks like it doesn't move at all. On other hardware the > wheels go backwards and forwards where the screen refresh rate is just > perfectly

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 05:23, Al Boldi wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > Gears just isn't an interactive task and just about anything but gears > > would be a better test case since its behaviour varies wildly under > > different combinations of graphics cards, memory bandwidth, cpu and so > > on.

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 05 March 2007 22:59, Al Boldi wrote: > Markus Törnqvist wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:34:45AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > >Ok, gears is smooth when you run "make -j4", but with "nice make -j4", > > > gears becomes bursty. This looks like a problem with nice-levels. In > > > gener

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Al Boldi
Markus Törnqvist wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:34:45AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > >Ok, gears is smooth when you run "make -j4", but with "nice make -j4", > > gears becomes bursty. This looks like a problem with nice-levels. In > > general, looking subjectively at top d.1, procs appear to show

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Monday 05 March 2007, schreef Willy Tarreau: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:49:29AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > (...) > > > > That's just what it did, but when you "nice make -j4", things (gears) > > > start to stutter. Is that due to the staircase? > > > > gears isn't an interactive task. Apart

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-04 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 04 March 2007, schreef Willy Tarreau: > Hi Con ! > > This was designed to be robust for any application since linux demands a > > general purpose scheduler design, while preserving interactivity, instead > > of optimising for one particular end use. > > Well, I haven't tested it yet, but