From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754214Ab2C1MuK (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:50:10 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33588 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751876Ab2C1MuI (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:50:08 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] BFS CPU scheduler version 0.420 AKA "Smoking" for linux kernel 3.3.0 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:39:22 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201203240553.32526.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <57375.1332641134@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20120328051243.GA2138@fancy-poultry.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-354751.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <20120328051243.GA2138@fancy-poultry.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 28/03/12 08:12, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 25.03.2012, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > >> I'va always wondered what people are using to measure interactivity. Do we have >> some hard numbers from scheduler traces, or is it a "feels faster"? > > I guess it's a "feels faster", because it's the only thing that > counts. Given that there is strong evidence that scheduler A is > "faster, more interactive", whatever... than scheduler B, but a > controlled trial shows a significantly better "feels faster" > experience using scheduler B, I'm quite shure that people would choose > scheduler B over A, and that's quite ok. It does what they expect it > to do, despite evidence which documents the opposite. CFS: ALSA XRUNs in JACK. BFS: much less ALSA XRUNs in JACK