Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms

[Nick Piggin]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Also, I'm concerned that sched-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A3 caused slowdowns and
> > Andrew's patch caused speedups and they just cancelled out.  Let's get
> > Andrew's patch into Linus's tree and see if it speeds things up.  If it
> > does, we probably still have a problem.
>
> The slowdowns are due to CPUs becoming idle too long, and the patches
> fix that. If CPUs aren't idle, the patch will have no effect.


Oh... I guess this is what you were saying?


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