Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v7

From: Prakash Punnoor
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 09:05:35 EST


Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:
> Am Samstag 28 April 2007 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > i'm pleased to announce release -v7 of the CFS scheduler patchset. (The
> > main goal of CFS is to implement "desktop scheduling" with as high
> > quality as technically possible.)
> >
> > The CFS patch against v2.6.21 (or against v2.6.20.8) can be downloaded
> > from the usual place:
>
> I made a quick test with the ac3 encoder aften, I tested against rsdl 0.36
> (I think it was). Time was slightly worse: >5.9 secs (with two threads on
> Athlon64 X2 x86_64). mainline gives me 5.4sec. rsdl took 5.8 sec.
>
> I haven't testes earlier cfs nor later sd. Seems scheduler gets optimized
> more for single core than smp?
>
> http://aften.sourceforge.net/

Just as an update: Ingo managed to fix this issue in v9. Nice work!

Cheers,
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