Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-22 Thread Christian
Hello List! I'm using the new scheduler since a few days and I have to say that this is an amazing improvement for gaming loads. When playing enemy-territory the animations are completly smooth and fluid, without any hiccups. Et runs now clearly better on Linux than on my Win XP partition (same

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thursday 22 March 2007 10:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:29:44 +1100 > > Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Further improve the deterministic nature of the RSDL cpu scheduler and > > make the rr_interval tunable. > > I might actually need to drop RSDL from next -mm, se

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thursday 22 March 2007 11:24, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thursday 22 March 2007 10:48, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > > Artur Skawina wrote: > > > Con Kolivas wrote: > > >> Note no interactive boost idea here. > > >> > > >> Patch is for 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. I have not spent the time trying to bring > > >> ot

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thursday 22 March 2007 10:48, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > Artur Skawina wrote: > > Con Kolivas wrote: > >> Note no interactive boost idea here. > >> > >> Patch is for 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. I have not spent the time trying to bring > >> other bases in sync. > > > > I've tried RSDLv.31+this on 2.6.20.3 as

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Artur Skawina
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: >> I'm not sure this is going in the right direction... I'm writing >> this while compiling a kernel w/ "nice -20 make -j2" and X is almost >> > Did you mean "nice -20"? If so, that should have slowed X quite a bit. > Try "nice 19" instead. i did try "nice --20" too :)

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Artur Skawina wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: Note no interactive boost idea here. Patch is for 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. I have not spent the time trying to bring other bases in sync. I've tried RSDLv.31+this on 2.6.20.3 as i'm not tracking -mm. Further improve the deterministic nature of the R

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:29:44 +1100 Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Further improve the deterministic nature of the RSDL cpu scheduler and make > the rr_interval tunable. I might actually need to drop RSDL from next -mm, see if those sched oopses whcih several people have reported go away

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Artur Skawina
Con Kolivas wrote: > Note no interactive boost idea here. > > Patch is for 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. I have not spent the time trying to bring other > bases in sync. I've tried RSDLv.31+this on 2.6.20.3 as i'm not tracking -mm. > Further improve the deterministic nature of the RSDL cpu scheduler and make