Re: [PATCH] sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimumscheduling granularity

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 13 2010 - 15:45:27 EST


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Linus, Mathieu, you can test the granularity reduction patch via:

Hmm. It's a bit hard to judge subjective feelings, especially when you
have expectations of improvement, but yes, I think this does improve
the the interactive feel when scroll-wheeling around in firefox or
chrome.

So on the whole I'd trust the actual latency benchmark numbers more,
but I _think_ it does translate into actually feeling better too.

Linus
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