On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:27 -0700, Tong Li wrote: > Mike, > > Could you try this patch to see if it solves the latency problem?
No, but it helps some when running two un-pinned busy loops, one at nice 0, and the other at nice 19. Yesterday I hit latencies of up to 1.2 _seconds_ doing this, and logging sched_debug and /proc/`pidof Xorg`/sched from SCHED_RR shells. se.wait_max : 164.242748 se.wait_max : 121.996128 se.wait_max : 194.464773 se.wait_max : 517.425411 se.wait_max : 131.453214 se.wait_max : 122.984190 se.wait_max : 111.729274 se.wait_max : 119.567580 se.wait_max : 126.980696 se.wait_max : 177.241452 se.wait_max : 129.604329 se.wait_max : 119.631657 It doesn't help at all with this oddity while running same: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now is the time foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor aall good men to come to the aid of their country That was a nice 0 shell window. I'm not a great typist, but I ain't _that_ bad :) -Mike - 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/