Op 22 apr. 2014, om 16:41 heeft Siarhei Siamashka <[email protected]> 
het volgende geschreven:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:45:23 +0200
> Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Op 22 apr. 2014, om 15:10 heeft Siarhei Siamashka 
>> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
>>> BTW, forgot to mention that I also have tried the BFS scheduler
>>> just for fun. And pushed the patches to this branch:
>>>   https://github.com/ssvb/linux-sunxi/tree/sunxi-3.4.79-bfs
>>> 
>>> And it fixes at least this particular gtkperf issue. When the BFS
>>> patches are applied to sunxi-3.4, the reported gtkperf score is
>>> always good even without using explicit taskset.
>>> 
>>> So it indeed looks like either CFS in general, or CFS in linux 3.4, or
>>> CFS on ARM does not behave really well for this type of workload.
>>> I have also tried to run some gtkperf tests on an x86 laptop running
>>> linux 3.4 with xf86-video-fbdev driver, but could not reproduce a
>>> similar problem. However unlike what we observed on ARM, the client
>>> side gtkperf process does not hugely dominate in CPU usage anymore.
>>> On x86, the CPU usage is roughly evenly distributed between the gtkperf
>>> process and the Xorg process. This could be the reason why the same
>>> strange CFS scheduler behaviour is not triggered there.
>>> 
>>> About the BFS scheduler in general. It might be that its popularity
>>> among the low latency responsive linux desktop fans is actually well
>>> deserved :-)
>>> 
>>> I would even propose to apply the BFS patches to the sunxi-3.4 kernel
>>> (ensuring that we have a superior X11 desktop performance is always
>>> nice), but read somewhere that BFS does not play very well with
>>> lennartware. Are there many systemd users here?
>> 
>> *raises hand*
> 
> That's great, we got a volunteer ;-) The arch wiki says that it is just
> the user sessions feature that is broken:
>    
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/linux-ck#BFS_patched_kernels_CAN_in_fact_use_systemd
> 
> How important is the support for user sessions?

Not at all, I don't use user sessions :)

> Could you or anybody
> else please cherry pick the BFS patches and test how good or bad they
> actually work with the systemd enabled userland in practice?

I'll have a try, but after this week, it's release week at work :/

regards,

Koen

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