linux-kernel - Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

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Message-ID: <20070925140707.GO26289@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:37:07 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:35:17PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > I tried the following patch. I *think* I see some improvement, wrt
> > latency seen when I type on the shell. Before this patch, I noticed
> > oddities like "kill -9 chew-max-pid" wont kill chew-max (it is queued in
> > runqueue waiting for a looong time to run before it can acknowledge
> > signal and exit). With this patch, I don't see such oddities ..So I am hoping 
> > it fixes the latency problem you are seeing as well.
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/117 plus the below seems to be the SIlver
> Bullet for the latencies I was seeing.

Cool ..Thanks for the quick feedback.

Ingo, do the two patches fix the latency problems you were seeing as
well?

-- 
Regards,
vatsa
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