Re: [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler

[Nick Piggin]

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

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