Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

[Bill Davidsen]

Anant Nitya wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:15:33 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i'm pleased to announce release -v13 of the CFS scheduler patchset.
> >
> > The CFS patch against v2.6.22-rc1, v2.6.21.1 or v2.6.20.10 can be
> > downloaded from the usual place:
> >
> >      http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/
> >
> > -v13 is a fixes-only release. It fixes a smaller accounting bug, so if
> > you saw small lags during desktop use under certain workloads then
> > please re-check that workload under -v13 too. It also tweaks SMP
> > load-balancing a bit. (Note: the load-balancing artifact reported by
> > Peter Williams is not a CFS-specific problem and he reproduced it in
> > v2.6.21 too. Nevertheless -v13 should be less prone to such artifacts.)
> >
> > I know about no open CFS regression at the moment, so please re-test
> > -v13 and if you still see any problem please re-report it. Thanks!
> >
> > Changes since -v12:
> >
> >  - small tweak: made the "fork flow" of reniced tasks zero-sum
> >
> >  - debugging update: /proc/<PID>/sched is now seqfile based and echoing
> >    0 to it clears the maximum-tracking counters.
> >
> >  - more debugging counters
> >
> >  - small rounding fix to make the statistical average of rounding errors
> >    zero
> >
> >  - scale both the runtime limit and the granularity on SMP too, and make
> >    it dependent on HZ
> >
> >  - misc cleanups
> >
> > As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more
> > than welcome,
> >
> > 	Ingo
> > -
> Hi
> Been testing this version of CFS from last an hour or so and still facing same 
> lag problems while browsing sites with heavy JS and or flash usage. Mouse 
> movement is pathetic and audio starts to skip. I haven't face this behavior 
> with CFS till v11.
'm not seeing this, do have a site or two as examples?

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