Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 5 authors, 2008-01-29

Re: ppc32: Weird process scheduling behaviour with 2.6.24-rc

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-01-26 05:16:53

quoted
Not that it seems that Michel reported far worse behaviour than what I
saw, including pretty hickup'ish X behaviour even without the fair group
scheduler compared to 2.6.23. It might be because he's running X niced
to -1 (I leave X at 0 and let the scheduler deal with it in general)
though.
Hmm ..with X niced to -1, it should get more cpu power leading to a
better desktop experience.
It depends as X can end up starving it's own clients, especially with a
compositing manager or other fancy window manager...
Michel,
	You had reported that commit 810e95ccd58d91369191aa4ecc9e6d4a10d8d0c8 
was the cause for this bad behavior. Do you see behavior change (from good->bad)
immediately after applying that patch during your bisect process?
Also Michel, double check your .config in both cases.
I would prefer to have CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED +
CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED on by default. Can you pls let me know how you
think is the desktop experience with that combination?
I'm going to give that a try but unfortunately, it will have to wait
until I'm back from LCA in a bit more than a week.

Ben.
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