From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264284AbTLPABF (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:01:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264288AbTLPABF (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:01:05 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:47832 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264284AbTLPABD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:01:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3FDE41BC.8000305@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:20:28 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: Rusty Russell , linux-kernel , Anton Blanchard , Ingo Molnar , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , Mark Wong Subject: Re: [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler References: <20031213022038.300B22C2C1@lists.samba.org> <3FDAB517.4000309@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >Hello Nick, > This is somewhat unrelated to the current thread topic direction, >but i noticed that your HT scheduler really behaves oddly when the box is >used interactively. The one application which really seemed to be >misbehaving was 'gaim', whenever someone typed a message X11 would pause >for a second or so until the text displayed causing the mouse to jump >around erratically. I can try help with this but unfortunately i can't do >too much rebooting this week due to work (main workstation), but perhaps >we can discuss it over a weekend. The system is 4x logical 2.0GHz. > Hi Zwane, Thats weird. I assume you don't have problems with the regular SMP kernel. Unfortunately I don't have an HT box I can do these sorts of tests with. The first thing you could try is with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT 'N'. Nick