Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: patch-O1int-0306281420 for 2.5.73 interactivity | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:16:21 +1000 |
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:57, Mike Galbraith wrote: > 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,...
Consider it not optimised yet. The workings are still evolving but are now close. It errs on the too-easy to get a bonus in the early ms after an app has started at the moment.
> > >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.
Good point. If it's going to be developed properly it should only include what is likely to be used with it.
Con
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