Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:57:35 +0200 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: patch-O1int-0306281420 for 2.5.73 interactivity |
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Greetings,
At 03:35 PM 6/30/2003 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: >Summary: >A patch to reduce audio skipping and X jerking under load.
I took it out for a quick spin. It kills thud graveyard dead. That's the good news, now for the bad ;-) With a make -j5 running, kasteroids stutters enough to be pretty annoying. The patched kernel is making booboos wrt cc1's priority often enough to nail kasteroids pretty hard. The mouse pointer also jerks around quite a bit,...
>It's looking seriously like I'm talking to myelf here, but just in case there >are lurkers testing this patch, there's a big bug that made it think jiffy >wraparound was occurring so interactive tasks weren't receiving the boost >they deserved. Here is a patch with the fix in. > >How to use if you're still thinking of testing: >Use with Hz 1000, and use the granularity patch I posted as well for >smoothing >X off.
...but I'm not using that, because I wanted to see the pure effects of this patch.
-Mike
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