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Message-ID: <14311.1188333968@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:46:08 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFS review
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:05:37 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Al Boldi wrote:
> >
> > No need for framebuffer. All you need is X using the X.org vesa-driver.
> > Then start gears like this:
> >
> > # gears & gears & gears &
> >
> > Then lay them out side by side to see the periodic stallings for ~10sec.
>
> I don't think this is a good test.
>
> Why?
>
> If you're not using direct rendering, what you have is the X server doing
> all the rendering, which in turn means that what you are testing is quite
> possibly not so much about the *kernel* scheduling, but about *X-server*
> scheduling!
I wonder - can people who are doing this as a test please specify whether
they're using an older X that has the libX11 or the newer libxcb code? That
may have a similar impact as well.
(libxcb is pretty new - it landed in Fedora Rawhide just about a month ago,
after Fedora 7 shipped. Not sure what other distros have it now...)
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