Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 13:22:37 EST


Mike Galbraith wrote:
Greetings,

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 19:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
i'm pleased to announce release -v19 of the CFS scheduler patchset.

I've taken mainline git tree (freshly integrated CFS!) out for a
multimedia spin. I tested watching movies and listenign to music in the
presence of various sleep/burn loads, pure burn loads, and mixed loads.
All was peachy here.. I saw no frame drops or sound skips or other
artifacts under any load where the processor could possibly meet demand.

I would agree with preliminary testing, save that if you get a lot of processes updating the screen at once, there seems to be a notable case of processes getting no CPU for 100-300ms, followed by a lot of CPU.

I see this clearly with the "glitch1" test with four scrolling xterms and glxgears, but also watching videos with little busy processes on the screen. The only version where I never see this in test or with real use is cfs-v13.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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