Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RSDL v0.31 | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:26:08 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 06:56 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:24 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread and now I'm confused. > > > > You're saying that it's somehow the scheduler's fault that X isn't > > running with a high enough priority? > > I'm saying that the current scheduler adjusts for interactive loads, > this new one doesn't. I'm seeing interactivity regressions, and they > are not fixed with nice unless nice is used to maximum effect. I'm > saying yes, I can lower my expectations, but no I don't want to. > > A four line summary is as short as I can make it. > > -Mike
Uh, no. Essentially, the current scheduler works around X's brokenness, in an often unpredictable manner.
RSDL appears to be completely deterministic, which is a very strong virtue.
The X people have plans for how to go about fixing this, but until then, there's no reason to hold up kernel development.
-- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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