From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932159AbXCEWVP (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:21:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932201AbXCEWVP (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:21:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.ono.com ([62.42.230.12]:44212 "EHLO resmaa01.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932159AbXCEWVO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:21:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:20:58 +0100 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20070305232058.6eeeb254@werewolf-wl> In-Reply-To: <20070302030026.5eef0c92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070302030026.5eef0c92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0cvs15 (GTK+ 2.10.9; 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 Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:00:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc2-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc2/2.6.21-rc2-mm1/ > > I'm also noticing very bad behaviour wrt scheduling, I think. When I launch my parallel cpu burning code, the system _really_ stalls, the mouse in X11 is not jerky, it is _stuck_ for a couple or three seconds... The only diffrecence is that, trying to solve nVidia driver problems, I disabled BKL preemption: werewolf:/usr/src/linux# grep PREEMPT .config # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2007.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.20-jam01 (gcc 4.1.2 20070115 (prerelease) (4.1.2-0.20070115.1mdv2007.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT