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
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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.