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* 'autogroup' sched code KILLING responsiveness
@ 2011-01-21 18:20 Michael Witten
  2011-01-21 22:27 ` Mike Galbraith
  2011-01-23 10:50 ` Christian Kujau
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Michael Witten @ 2011-01-21 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Bisecting shows that this commit:

  5091faa449ee0b7d73bc296a93bca9540fc51d0a
  sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
  Date:   Tue Nov 30 14:18:03 2010 +0100

is the reason that my computer has become unusable.

With that code in place, a resource-intensive activity (such as
compiling the Linux kernel) causes my computer to become
unresponsive for many seconds at a time; the entire screen
does not refresh, typed keys are dropped or are handled very
late, etc (even in Linux's plain virtual consoles).

I'm using a uniprocessor (UP) machine, and I've noticed that such
codepaths often get clobbered by changes that only make it to SMP
configurations (I guess kernel hackers have better equipment than
I do); maybe that has something to do with it.

I'm a laymen, so all I can do at this time is report my experience;
if this has already been discussed, I would appeciate a link to
the right thread.

Sincerely,
Michael Witten

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2011-01-21 18:20 'autogroup' sched code KILLING responsiveness Michael Witten
2011-01-21 22:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-21 22:39   ` Michael Witten
2011-01-22  3:22     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-22 21:23   ` Michael Witten
2011-01-23  3:32     ` Michael Witten
2011-01-23  5:42       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-23 10:50 ` Christian Kujau
2011-01-23 11:19   ` Christian Kujau
2011-01-23 14:54   ` Yong Zhang
2011-01-23 15:03     ` [PATCH] sched: fix autogroup nice tune on UP Yong Zhang
2011-01-23 15:16       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-24  3:17         ` Yong Zhang
2011-01-24  5:40       ` [PATCH V2] " Yong Zhang
2011-01-24  5:54         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-24  6:11           ` Yong Zhang
2011-01-24  6:18             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-24  7:33               ` [PATCH V3] " Yong Zhang
2011-01-24  8:01                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-24  9:00                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-24 10:51                 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix poor interactivity on UP systems due to group scheduler nice tune bug tip-bot for Yong Zhang
2011-01-23 15:15     ` 'autogroup' sched code KILLING responsiveness Ingo Molnar
2011-01-23 15:53       ` Michael Witten
2011-01-23 18:52       ` Andreas Mohr
2011-01-23 23:57       ` Christian Kujau

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