linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:34:55 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

On Thursday 19 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
>> You can certainly script it with -geometry. But it is the wrong
>> application for this matter, because you benchmark X more than
>> glxgears itself. What would be better is something like a line
>> rotating 360 degrees and doing some short stuff between each degree,
>> so that X is not much sollicitated, but the CPU would be spent more on
>> the processes themselves.
>
>at least on my setup glxgears goes via DRI/DRM so there's no X
>scheduling inbetween at all, and the visual appearance of glxgears is a
>direct function of its scheduling.
>
>	Ingo

That doesn't appear to be the case here Ingo. Even when I know the rest of the 
system is lagged, glxgears continues to show very smooth and steady movement.

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