Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  - interactivity: precise load calculation and load smoothing

This seems to help quite a bit.

(5 second top sample)

 2636 root      15  -5 19148  15m 5324 R   73  1.5   1:42.29 0 amarok_libvisua
 5440 root      20   0  320m  36m 8388 S   18  3.6   3:28.55 1 Xorg
 4621 root      20   0 22776  18m 4168 R   12  1.8   0:00.63 1 cc1
 4616 root      20   0 19456  13m 2200 R    9  1.3   0:00.43 0 cc1

I no longer have to renice both X and Gforce to achieve a perfect
display when they are sharing my box with a make -j2.  X is displaying
everything it's being fed beautifully with no help.  I have to renice
Gforce (amarok_libvisual), but given it's very heavy CPU usage, that
seems perfectly fine.

No regressions noticed so far.  Box is _very_ responsive under load,
seemingly even more so than with previous releases.  That is purely
subjective, but the first impression was very distinct.

	-Mike

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