Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
* Michael Gerdau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch > > against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: > > > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ > > I can't get 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 to boot. Immediately after selecting > this kernel I see a very fast scrolling (loop?) sequence of addrs > which I don't know how to stop to write them down. They don't appear > in any kernel log either. However I see two Tux at the top of the > screen. could you try -v5? It has at least one such bug fixed. (If it still happens then please try to make a digital picture of the screen and send the picture to me.) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
* Michael Gerdau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ I can't get 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 to boot. Immediately after selecting this kernel I see a very fast scrolling (loop?) sequence of addrs which I don't know how to stop to write them down. They don't appear in any kernel log either. However I see two Tux at the top of the screen. could you try -v5? It has at least one such bug fixed. (If it still happens then please try to make a digital picture of the screen and send the picture to me.) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
> i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch > against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ I can't get 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 to boot. Immediately after selecting this kernel I see a very fast scrolling (loop?) sequence of addrs which I don't know how to stop to write them down. They don't appear in any kernel log either. However I see two Tux at the top of the screen. I'm using the very same .config I also use with 2.6.21-rc7-sd0.x What could be wrong and how could I track that down ? FWIW this also happened with 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v3 and thus for 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 I did a pristine extract of 2.6.20.tar.bz2 and applied all patches freshly. System is a Dell XPS M1710, Intel Core2 T7600 2.33, 4GB Best, Michael -- Technosis GmbH, Geschäftsführer: Michael Gerdau, Tobias Dittmar Sitz Hamburg; HRB 89145 Amtsgericht Hamburg Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver pgpp4LQ8jBmat.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ I can't get 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 to boot. Immediately after selecting this kernel I see a very fast scrolling (loop?) sequence of addrs which I don't know how to stop to write them down. They don't appear in any kernel log either. However I see two Tux at the top of the screen. I'm using the very same .config I also use with 2.6.21-rc7-sd0.x What could be wrong and how could I track that down ? FWIW this also happened with 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v3 and thus for 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 I did a pristine extract of 2.6.20.tar.bz2 and applied all patches freshly. System is a Dell XPS M1710, Intel Core2 T7600 2.33, 4GB Best, Michael -- Technosis GmbH, Geschäftsführer: Michael Gerdau, Tobias Dittmar Sitz Hamburg; HRB 89145 Amtsgericht Hamburg Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver pgpp4LQ8jBmat.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
On Saturday 21 April 2007, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: >21 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Gene Heskett şunları yazmıştı: >> This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, >> its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so >> far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing >> that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. > >Add +1 for kmail lags (by the way mines are freezes instead of lags, cause i >cannot use konsole etc. while these happens) > >Cheers yes, you are correct, the composer in particular, or the response to the + key for next message, will freeze for the second or maybe 2, that kmail is sorting and storing incoming mail. This is a major problem for users of dialup on an auto basis because its frozen for much of the time it takes the much slower modem communications to complete, compared to a dsl circuit where one can have fetchmail doing the sucking, and handing it off to procmail for treatment by spamassassin and its ilk before finally storing the incoming mail in /var/spool/mail/gene. kmail sees none of that background activity at all. They actually run asynchronously here. kmail then picks that up and sorts it to the correct kmail folder and this does cause the lag/freeze while its doing that. This latter lag/freeze is all I see, but for those that are using kmail to directly access their ISP's mailserver(s), this lag/freeze isn't a 1 second freeze, but a 10-30 second freeze, and that is truly a cast iron bitch version of a PITA. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) VICARIOUSLY experience some reason to LIVE!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
21 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Gene Heskett şunları yazmıştı: > This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, > its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so > far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing > that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. Add +1 for kmail lags (by the way mines are freezes instead of lags, cause i cannot use konsole etc. while these happens) Cheers -- S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in house! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
Hi Ingo; 20 Nis 2007 Cum tarihinde, Ingo Molnar şunları yazmıştı: > As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more > than welcome, I tried hard and found another problem for you :) With Linus's current git + CFSv4 as soon as i start a guest in VirtualBox [1], system enters the following loop; - Whole system freeze ~5 secs. - System works well ~5 secs - Whole system freeze ~5 secs. Again mainline has no issues but its %100 reproducible under CFSv4. Following "ps aux" and "top" outputs grabbed while system works well, i cannot do anything else while system freezes except moving mouse for fun :P [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?SN 22:26 0:11 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [events/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [khelper] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kthread] root26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kblockd/0] root27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kacpid] root 124 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kseriod] root 137 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kapmd] root 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [pdflush] root 146 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [pdflush] root 147 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kswapd0] root 148 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [aio/0] root 802 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 844 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [ata/0] root 845 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [ata_aux] root 856 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:01 [scsi_eh_0] root 857 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 869 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 872 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [khubd] root 919 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 927 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 982 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [xfslogd/0] root 983 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] root 985 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [xfsbufd] root 986 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S< 22:26 0:00 [xfssyncd] root 1050 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S top top - 23:24:27 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 13.59, 13.00, 7.75 Tasks: 102 total, 1 running, 101 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 99.4%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2067672k total, 1935300k used, 132372k free, 288k buffers Swap: 2096440k total,0k used, 2096440k free, 961236k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 6684 caglar20 0 625m 570m 15m S 99.2 28.3 5:56.17 VirtualBox 844 root 1 -19 000 S 0.2 0.0 0:00.56 ata/0 6731 caglar20 0 2312 1124 856 R 0.2 0.1 0:00.04 top 1 root 20 0 1608 556 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.92 init 2 root RT 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 39 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:11.85 ksoftirqd/0 4 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 events/0 5 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper 6 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 26 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0 27 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 124 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 137 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kapmd 145 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 146 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.27 pdflush 147 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 148 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 802 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 845 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 856 root 1 -19 000 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.04 scsi_eh_0 857 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 869 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd 872 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 919 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khpsbpkt 927 root 1 -19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
* mdew . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance of supporting 2.6.20? okay, it seems it was less work to backport it to v2.6.20 than it was to answer all the "where's the v2.6.20 version?" emails ;-) You can download the v2.6.20.7 version of CFS from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-cfs-v4-v2.6.20.7.patch let me know how well it works for you and how it compares to the vanilla scheduler and/or other schedulers you might have tried. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
* mdew . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance of supporting 2.6.20? okay, it seems it was less work to backport it to v2.6.20 than it was to answer all the where's the v2.6.20 version? emails ;-) You can download the v2.6.20.7 version of CFS from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-cfs-v4-v2.6.20.7.patch let me know how well it works for you and how it compares to the vanilla scheduler and/or other schedulers you might have tried. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
Hi Ingo; 20 Nis 2007 Cum tarihinde, Ingo Molnar şunları yazmıştı: As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome, I tried hard and found another problem for you :) With Linus's current git + CFSv4 as soon as i start a guest in VirtualBox [1], system enters the following loop; - Whole system freeze ~5 secs. - System works well ~5 secs - Whole system freeze ~5 secs. Again mainline has no issues but its %100 reproducible under CFSv4. Following ps aux and top outputs grabbed while system works well, i cannot do anything else while system freezes except moving mouse for fun :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?SN 22:26 0:11 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [events/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [khelper] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kthread] root26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kblockd/0] root27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kacpid] root 124 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kseriod] root 137 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kapmd] root 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [pdflush] root 146 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 [pdflush] root 147 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kswapd0] root 148 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [aio/0] root 802 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 844 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [ata/0] root 845 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [ata_aux] root 856 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:01 [scsi_eh_0] root 857 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 869 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 872 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [khubd] root 919 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 927 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 982 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [xfslogd/0] root 983 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] root 985 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [xfsbufd] root 986 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [xfssyncd] root 1050 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:01 /sbin/udevd --daemon root 2831 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [kondemand/0] root 2993 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [tifm/0] root 3039 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [pccardd] root 3063 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 22:26 0:00 [ipw2200/0] root 3127 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 Comar root 3278 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 ComarRPC root 3334 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -m 15 root 3338 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -2 root 3340 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -R -Y -N -t 20 eth1 root 3345 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events dbus 3351 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system root 3354 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon root 3418 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/polkitd hal 3420 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Ss 22:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --use-syslog root 3421 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 hald-runner hal 3432 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0 hal 3435 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1 hal 3436 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2 hal 3437 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S22:26 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event4 root 3444 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty1 Ss+ 22:26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 root 3445 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty2 Ss+ 22:26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty2 root 3446 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty3 Ss+ 22:26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 3447 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty4 Ss+ 22:26 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 3448 0.0 0.0 0 0
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
21 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Gene Heskett şunları yazmıştı: This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. Add +1 for kmail lags (by the way mines are freezes instead of lags, cause i cannot use konsole etc. while these happens) Cheers -- S.Çağlar Onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in house! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
On Saturday 21 April 2007, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: 21 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Gene Heskett şunları yazmıştı: This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. Add +1 for kmail lags (by the way mines are freezes instead of lags, cause i cannot use konsole etc. while these happens) Cheers yes, you are correct, the composer in particular, or the response to the + key for next message, will freeze for the second or maybe 2, that kmail is sorting and storing incoming mail. This is a major problem for users of dialup on an auto basis because its frozen for much of the time it takes the much slower modem communications to complete, compared to a dsl circuit where one can have fetchmail doing the sucking, and handing it off to procmail for treatment by spamassassin and its ilk before finally storing the incoming mail in /var/spool/mail/gene. kmail sees none of that background activity at all. They actually run asynchronously here. kmail then picks that up and sorts it to the correct kmail folder and this does cause the lag/freeze while its doing that. This latter lag/freeze is all I see, but for those that are using kmail to directly access their ISP's mailserver(s), this lag/freeze isn't a 1 second freeze, but a 10-30 second freeze, and that is truly a cast iron bitch version of a PITA. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) VICARIOUSLY experience some reason to LIVE!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
Any chance of supporting 2.6.20? On 4/21/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: 11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. Changes since -v3: - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling details have been worked out.) - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome, Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
On Friday 20 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch >against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: > >http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ > >this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving >interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: > >11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) > >in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down >under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast >enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related >Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. > >Changes since -v3: > > - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, > OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). > (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling >details have been worked out.) > > - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems > > - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies > >As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more >than welcome, I've been running this one for several hours now, with amanda running in the background due a typu in one of my scripts, so now its playing catchup. This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. Even with gzip eating 95% of the cpu, graphics animations like the cards in patience are moving at at least 80% speed. Nice, keep this one and use it for the reference. > Ingo -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In order to dial out, it is necessary to broaden one's dimension. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
On Friday 20 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: 11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. Changes since -v3: - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling details have been worked out.) - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome, I've been running this one for several hours now, with amanda running in the background due a typu in one of my scripts, so now its playing catchup. This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here, its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded. Even with gzip eating 95% of the cpu, graphics animations like the cards in patience are moving at at least 80% speed. Nice, keep this one and use it for the reference. Ingo -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In order to dial out, it is necessary to broaden one's dimension. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4
Any chance of supporting 2.6.20? On 4/21/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: 11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. Changes since -v3: - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling details have been worked out.) - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome, Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
