Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler-H6/H7/I0 and nice +19

[Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>]

Hi.

I3 still shows exactly the same behavior. For a test I simply compiled
ALSA and executed xstart. The screen went black (for a minute?) and
continued to start when ALSA finished.

Also dragging a xterm arround (during a compilation) results in 1-2
frames/per second refresh.

The lst one I tried was sched-patch was G1, it worked fine.

Athlon XP 1700+, SiS735, 512MB RAM, Matrox-G450 ...

From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler-H6/H7/I0 and nice +19
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:44:51 -0500

> On January 15, 2002 08:49 pm, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > The 2.4.17-I0 patch makes things much better here.  Does this one
> > > suffer from the same bugs that the 2.5.2 version has?
> >
> > i'll do a -I3 patch in a minute.
> >
> > > Major difference from older version of the patch is that top shows
> > > many processes with PRI 0.  I am not sure this is intended?
> >
> > yes, it's intended. Lots of interactive (idle) tasks. Right now the time
> > under which we detect a task as interactive is pretty short, but if you
> > run 'top' with 's 0.3' then you can see how tasks grow/shrink their
> > priorities, depending on the load they generate.
> 
> OK I3 also works fine with respect to my nice test.  One thing I do note
> and I am not too sure how it might be fixed, is what happens when starting 
> what will be interactive programs.  
> 
> Watching with top 's 0.3' I can see them lose priority in the 3-10 seconds it
> takes them to setup.  This is not that critical if they are the only thing trying
> to run.  If you have another (not niced) task eating cpu (like a kernel compile) 
> then intactive startup time suffers.  Startup time is wait time that _is_ noticed
> by users.
> 
> Is there some way we could tell the scheduler or the scheduler could learn that 
> a given _program_ is usually interactive so it should wait at bit (10 seconds on my 
> box would work) before starting to increase its priority numbers?
> 
> TIA
> Ed Tomlinson
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