From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993142AbXCIVIK (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:08:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993141AbXCIVIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:08:09 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:42046 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993140AbXCIVIH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:08:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:55:37 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results Message-ID: <20070309205537.GG10394@waste.org> References: <20070309053931.GA10459@waste.org> <200703091939.05535.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070309182744.GC10394@waste.org> <200703100715.39354.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703100715.39354.kernel@kolivas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:15:38AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > How odd. I would have thought that if an interaction was to occur it would > have been without the new feature. Clearly what you describe without NO_HZ is > not the expected behaviour with RSDL. I wonder what went wrong. Are you on > 100HZ on that laptop? While I expect 100HZ should be ok, it might just not > be... My laptop is about the same performance and works fine with 100HZ under > load of all sorts BUT I don't have Beryl (which I would have thought swayed > things in the opposite direction also). Note I also did a test with metacity and got more or less the same results. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.