Re: O(1) scheduler & interactivity improvements

From: Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 17:41:45 EST


Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:44:14PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
>
>>Well, no, opaque window moving is fine if the CPU isn't at 100%. If
>>it is, I'd rather see choppy window movements than have a server
>>application starved of CPU. That's just my preference, though.
>>
>
> That could be an interesting hack to a window manager -
> don't start the move in opaque mode when the load is high.

This isn't really an issue if the graphics engine is doing the work and
the X server doesn't busy-wait on the bitblt to finish (ie. does DMA or
calls ioctl to sleep until command-fifo-has-free-space interrupt).

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