Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

From: Volker Armin Hemmann
Date: Sat Sep 12 2009 - 04:27:22 EST


Hi,

On Samstag 12 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> (Volker stripped all CCs from his posts; I restored them manually.)

stripping is not entirely correct. marc does not list all recipients ;)
Thank you.

>
> On 09/11/2009 09:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is with 2.6.31+reiser4+fglrx
> > Phenom II X4 955
> >
> > KDE 4.3.1, composite temporary disabled.
> > tvtime running.
> >
> > load:
> > fat emerge with make -j5 running in one konsole tab (xulrunner being
> > compiled).
> >
> > without NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS:
> >
> > tvtime is smooth most of the time
> >
> > with NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS:
> >
> > tvtime is more jerky. Very visible in scenes with movement.
>
> Is the make -j5 running niced 0?

yes. It always is.


> If yes, that would be actually the
> correct behavior.

maybe. But I do not complain about jerks at all. I have

[ 3618.305918] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts

with tvtime running since I switched cpus - so something is wrong anyway.

I just wanted to report that for _me_ the behaviour is worse with
NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS and plain 2.6.31.

I tried it yesterday when the firefox update came in and I switched between
NO_NEW_FAIR... and NEW_FAIR... several times and with NO_NEW_FAIR... tvtime
was just _more_ jerky, I am not saying that it wasn't jerky without it nor do
I complain about it at all. ;)

Glück Auf,
Volker
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