Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] patch-O1int-0306302317 for 2.5.73 interactivity | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:29:49 +1000 |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:17, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:04, Con Kolivas wrote: > > >When I say "X feels jerky", I mean that I can notice the scheduler is > > >not giving the X server enough CPU cycles (I mean, a continuous, > > >smaller, but more frequent CPU timeslice) to perform window movement and > > >redrawing fast enough to get ~25fps. Also, I don't think it's related to > > >the video card. The combo patch I did with Mike's + Ingo's enhacements > > >works beautifully for me. > > > > Actually just the bastardised Ingo patch will do that on it's own. > > However that's never going to be incorporated. > > So, I guess we won't have the option to choose between different CPU > schedulers (desktop or server, for example), like we have in -mm kernels > with IO schedulers (deadline or anticipatory). > > Seriously talking, I prefer to have the best performance in my server > boxes, but for my laptop, I prefer shorter timeslices, lower peformance > and better turnaround times and a wiser CPU scheduler. Just my two > cents. > > It's sad to say but I feel the vanilla 2.5 CPU scheduler doesn't match > my end-user preferences :-(
There will always be alternate trees. Whether options like this make it into mainline will be up to the maintainer of course, but given that we seem to have a "swappiness" dial in mainline then I suspect we may have more dials in 2.6 than before.
Con
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