Re: [patch] sched-2.6.0-test1-G6, interactivity changes

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 02:24:00 EST


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Con Kolivas wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:40, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > - further increase timeslice granularity
>
> For a while now I've been running a 1000Hz 2.4 O(1) kernel tree that
> uses timeslice granularity set to MIN_TIMESLICE which has stark
> smoothness improvements in X. I've avoided promoting this idea because
> of the theoretical drop in throughput this might cause. I've not been
> able to see any detriment in my basic testing of this small granularity,
> so I was curious to see what you throught was a reasonable lower limit?

it's a hard question. The 25 msecs in -G6 is probably too low.

        Ingo

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