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

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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:04:29 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	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, 2007-09-25 at 11:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Maybe there's more to come: if we can get CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED to work 
> properly then your Xorg will have a load-independent 50% of CPU time all 
> to itself. (Group scheduling is quite impressive already: i can log in 
> as root without feeling _any_ effect from a perpetual 'hackbench 100' 
> running as uid mingo. Fork bombs no more.) Will the Amarok gforce plugin 
> like that CPU time splitup? (or is most of the gforce overhead under 
> your user uid?)
> 
> it could also work out negatively, _sometimes_ X does not like being too 
> high prio. (weird as that might be.) So we'll see.

I piddled around with fair users this morning, and it worked well.  With
Xorg and Gforce as one user (X and Gforce are synchronous ATM), and a
make -j30 as another, I could barely tell the make was running.
Watching a dvd, I couldn't tell. Latencies were pretty darn good
throughout three hours of testing this and that.

	-Mike

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