From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264810AbTGHGVF (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:21:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265125AbTGHGVF (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:21:05 -0400 Received: from us01smtp1.synopsys.com ([198.182.44.79]:35057 "EHLO boden.synopsys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264810AbTGHGVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:21:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:35:27 +0200 From: Alex Riesen To: Con Kolivas Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2 Message-ID: <20030708063527.GB13611@Synopsys.COM> Reply-To: alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM Mail-Followup-To: Con Kolivas , Felipe Alfaro Solana , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton References: <200307070317.11246.kernel@kolivas.org> <1057516609.818.4.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200307071319.57511.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307071319.57511.kernel@kolivas.org> Organization: Synopsys, Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas, Mon, Jul 07, 2003 05:19:57 +0200: > > > Attached is an incremental patch against 2.5.74-mm2 with more > > > interactivity work. Audio should be quite resistant to skips with this, > > > and it should not induce further unfairness. > > > > > I'm seeing extreme X starvation with this patch under 2.5.74-mm2 when > > starting a CPU hogger: > > > > Thanks to Felipe who picked this up I was able to find the one bug causing me > grief. The idle detection code was allowing the sleep_avg to get to > ridiculously high levels. This is corrected in the following replacement > O3int patch. Note this fixes the mozilla issue too. Kick arse!! > still skips. Pan, updating list of newsgroups, VIM compilation and xmms.