From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266495AbTGEVGk (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:06:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266498AbTGEVGe (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:06:34 -0400 Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]:8387 "EHLO mail-in-02.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266495AbTGEVGb (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:06:31 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Diego Calleja =?iso-8859-1?q?Garc=EDa?= Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:22:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307051728.12891.phillips@arcor.de> <20030705214006.37a52d15.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <20030705214006.37a52d15.diegocg@teleline.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307052322.10123.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 05 July 2003 21:40, Diego Calleja García wrote: > > to get us so far with this. The situation re scheduling in 2.5 feels > > much as the vm situation did in 2.3, in other words, we're halfway down a > > long twisty road that ends with something that works, after having tried > > and failed at many flavors of tweaking and tuning. Ultimately the > > problem will be solved by redesign, and probably not just limited to > > kernel code. > > I never run 2.3, but 2.5 behaviour has been much better in the past. I used > to run make -j25 and mp3 didn't skip, X and all apps were still very > reponsive. > > That was a lot of releases ago, before the so called linus' "interactivity" > patch. IMHO the behaviour in those releases was great; i think the > scheduler just needs a bit of tweaking from the Ingo's hand :) It is good, so long as the sound process runs at a higher-than-default priority. Trying to get sound to run skiplessly at the same priority as a normal process is just a waste of time. If it happens to work in some kernel versions or hardware configurations, it's an accident. Though I've admittedly only done a small of testing, I haven't seen a glitch recently. I'm a happy camper. (Right now I'm running make -j25, apt-get installing OpenOffice and listening to Bolero.) Regards, Daniel