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SubjectRe: Problems caused by scheduler tweaks in 2.6.0-test6?


Con Kolivas wrote:

>On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:11, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Did you see this Con?
>>
>>By the way Tom, I have my scheduler patch available for test6 here:
>>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v15a/sched-rollup-v15a-260t6.gz
>>
>>Tom Sightler wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>Over the last few months I have tested many different scheduler tweaks
>>>mostly by testing the -mm kernels and also by applying Nick's patches
>>>against vanilla kernels. Up until recently I have been very happy with
>>>2.6.0-test5 with Nick's scheduler patches.
>>>
>>>Then I decided to try 2.6.0-test6 which seems to include a lot of Con's
>>>work and, while overall this seems nice, I'm having two relatively
>>>serious side effects that seem to be related to this inclusion.
>>>
>>>1. VMware performance varies wildly. I can't put my finger on this
>>>exact issue, but I have found as way to repeatably trigger bad
>>>performance. When running VMware in fullscreen mode, enable window
>>>animation and repeatedly minimize/maximize a window. Under 2.4.x and
>>>2.6.0-test5 w/Nick's patches this process runs reasonably smooth,
>>>although noticably slower than native speed. With stock 2.6.0-test6
>>>after only a few seconds the minimize/maximize animiation slows to a
>>>complete crawl, take 20+ seconds to complete the minimize opertaion.
>>>I've tried tuning VMware with priorities but no luck.
>>>
>>>2. I also use Wine to run various Windows programs on occasion,
>>>particularly Outlook 2000 (mainly when attempting to help other running
>>>this application on Windows). The program runs fine, but always hangs
>>>on exit. I didn't originally think this was related to the scheduler,
>>>but interestingly, after applying Nick's patches to 2.6.0-test6, which
>>>back out Con's changes, this problem goes away.
>>>
>>>Is there any help out there for these type of issues? I know that many
>>>people seem to think these changes make life better, and I'll admidt
>>>that playing MP3's and DVD's is better with these changes, but I'd
>>>rather have my system preform well at other tasks. I would think having
>>>a way to turn off all the fancy interactivity detection would be ideal
>>>but there always seems to be opposition to adding tuning knobs.
>>>
>>>
>
>Please send a rundown of what top shows during these occurrences, and please
>define "hangs". I can't see how the scheduler tweaks can bring the machine
>down.
>

Could be unrelated. Might be a livelock or priority inversion spinning
thingy


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