Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and2.6.16-rc1-mm1

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:10 +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:38 -0500
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe this is normal and depends on the way X sleeps or something...
> > > 
> > 
> > Because the scheduler favors interactive tasks (aka those which spend a
> > large % of time waiting on external events) and X is only considered
> > interactive when the mouse is being moved.  When glxgears is running
> > it's CPU bound and is therefore penalized.
> 
> ??
> 
> The reverse... lower priority number means BETTER priority. So Actually
> X is penalized when I'm moving the mouse.
> 
> And running "glxgears" doesn't make X CPU bounded if direct rendering
> is enabled -- it is GPU bounded...
> 
> In fact I can run "glxgears" and still have 97% of IDLE CPU time.
> 

Ah, never mind, I misread your report then, I was thinking in terms of
RT priorities...

Lee

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