Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:41:00 +1100 | From | Peter Williams <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:45:28 +1100 > Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> wrote: > > >>Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>>Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> writes: >>> >>>One comment on the patches: could you remove the zillions of numerical Kconfig >>>options and just make them sysctls? I don't think it makes any sense >>>to require a reboot to change any of that. And the user is unlikely >>>to have much idea yet on what he wants on them while configuring. >> >>The default initial values should be fine and the default configuration >>allows the scheduling tuning parameters (i.e. half life and time slice >> ) to be changed on a running system via the /proc file system. > > > I'm running the 2.6.3-full patch on my workstation now. No tuning applied > at all. I reniced the X server to -10. When I have two kernel compiles (without any -j*) > running there is a visible (=not really slow, but long enough to notice something) > delay in responses while typing something in a xterm. In sylpheed there > is the same issue. > > The standard scheduler didn't show this that extreme with only two compiles. >
Thanks for the feedback. We're looking at some minor modifications to try and improve this issue.
BTW Could you try it with the X server reniced to -15?
Thanks Peter -- Dr Peter Williams, Chief Scientist peterw@aurema.com Aurema Pty Limited Tel:+61 2 9698 2322 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, Australia Fax:+61 2 9699 9174 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia http://www.aurema.com
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