On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> heh, thanks :) For which workload does it make the biggest difference > >> for you? (and compared to what other scheduler you used before? > >> 2.6.22?) > > > > .. > > > > Heh.. I'm just a very unsophisticated desktop user, and I like it when > > Thunderbird and Firefox are unaffected by the "make -j3" kernel builds > > that are often running in another window. BIG difference there. > > > > And on the cool side, the Swarm game (swarm.swf) is a great example of > > something that used to get jerky really fast whenever anything else > > was running, and now it really doesn't seem to be affected by > > anything. (I don't really play computer games, but this one is has a > > very retro feel..). > > nice! Do you feel any difference between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc for these > workloads? (if you've tried .24 already)
And also, I wonder what the average timeslice and number of context switches is between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-4. Would be interesting to see. -- 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/
