From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271312AbTHCVR4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:17:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271313AbTHCVR4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:17:56 -0400 Received: from h234n2fls24o900.bredband.comhem.se ([217.208.132.234]:25564 "EHLO oden.fish.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271312AbTHCVRx (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:17:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 23:19:49 +0200 From: Voluspa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity Message-Id: <20030803231949.3ca947f6.lista1@telia.com> Organization: The Foggy One X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-08-03 10:14:00 Con Kolivas wrote: > Please note if you do test the interactivity it would be most valuable > if you test Ingo's A3 patch first looking for improvements and > problems compared to vanilla _first_, and then test my O12.2 patch on > top of it. Hopefully there has been no regression and only > improvement in going to Ingo's new infrastructure. I can hardly spot any difference between 2.6.0-test2, A3 and A3-O12.2 while running the test as outlined in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105956126017752&w=2 I'll never do such a three hours again... All was equally well, which probably just means that my environment is too lightweight during "normal" operation. So I had to focus on the taxing game scenario. XFree86 Version 4.3.99.9 compiled against my glibc 2.2.4, and the same story with winex 3.1 running "Baldurs Gate I": _2.6.0-test2_ Animations have cyclic hacking like --- . --- . --- . (dots are pauses). Ambient sound hacks in concert, with an almost oscillating quality. Mouse pointer is impossible to place since movement can mean a few pixels or a full screen. Panning the play area is, of course, a real pain. Playability = 0 (on a scale from 0 to 10) _2.6.0-test2-A3_ All problems gone. Just slight bumps (very short graphic pauses) when doing a long play area panning. Sound is not perceptibly disturbed by any graphic bumps. Playability = 9. _2.6.0-test2-A3-O12.2_ Regression compared to plain A3, both in sound and animations. Mouse and panning seem less regressed. For example, a character can take four steps, freeze for half a second, take another four steps, freeze etc. Playablility = 8. I did the game-test two times with each A3 and A3-O12.2 (alternating boots) and the results were persistent. Looking at a "top" terminal while in the game, I couldn't spot any striking differences between the numbers. Just one oddity - and now I'm uncertain of its validity - as can be seen on the screencaps below. In A3 wine had a PRI of 25, wineserver had 15. In A3-O12.2 the numbers were reversed. I can redo the test if necessary. ( the niced process is foldingathome, always running on my system) --A3-- 20:15:01 up 23 min, 4 users, load average: 2.86, 3.09, 2.46 58 processes: 53 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped CPU states: 53.7% user 42.1% system 4.1% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle Mem: 127032k av, 123384k used, 3648k free, 0k shrd, 732k buff 86876k active, 28660k inactive Swap: 489940k av, 0k used, 489940k free 49436k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 209 loke 25 0 75316 46M 14284 R 56.6 37.2 10:40 0 wine 216 loke 15 0 2712 992 2388 S 34.4 0.7 5:42 0 wineserver 147 loke 34 19 33220 2388 24144 S N 4.3 1.8 2:02 0 FahCore_ca.ex 252 loke 16 0 1820 968 1664 R 1.7 0.7 0:01 0 top 172 root 16 0 27652 16M 13884 R 1.3 13.1 4:04 0 X 178 loke 15 0 5752 3428 5200 S 1.1 2.6 0:13 0 gkrellm 175 loke 15 0 8056 5936 4528 S 0.3 4.6 0:06 0 enlightenment -- --A3-O12.2-- 20:53:19 up 14 min, 4 users, load average: 3.57, 2.52, 1.27 58 processes: 52 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped CPU states: 60.3% user 36.5% system 3.1% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle Mem: 127032k av, 123672k used, 3360k free, 0k shrd, 640k buff 87996k active, 27860k inactive Swap: 489940k av, 0k used, 489940k free 50664k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 193 loke 15 0 66548 37M 14284 S 60.3 30.2 2:36 0 wine 200 loke 25 0 2704 984 2388 R 31.7 0.7 1:24 0 wineserver 150 loke 39 19 37248 10M 28172 S N 3.1 8.2 8:49 0 FahCore_ca.ex 220 loke 18 0 1820 968 1664 R 1.9 0.7 0:03 0 top 175 root 15 0 27492 16M 13872 S 1.3 13.0 0:31 0 X 181 loke 16 0 5752 3428 5200 S 0.9 2.6 0:03 0 gkrellm 178 loke 16 0 8232 6084 4520 S 0.3 4.7 0:03 0 enlightenment -- Mvh Mats Johannesson