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DateMon, 17 Nov 2003 16:17:00 +1100
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: Terrible interactivity with 2.6.0-t9-mm3

Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Sunday 16 November 2003 23:19, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>I think you might have confused Andrew a bit more ;)
>>
>>To start with, you are talking about IO schedulers, while the thread
>>is about CPU interactivity.
>>
>
>I wasn't aware that such performance issues were divorced.  In my 
>admitted limited view, a laggy mouse is a laggy mouse, and its due to 
>irq latency in achieving the context switch to service the mouses 
>data.  To me, its sorta like 2=2. :)
>

I guess its mostly due to scheduling latency. I think IRQ latency is
generally very good these days.

Scheduling latency caused not by long critical sections in the kernel,
but having things scheduled in front of you (X) for a long time.

>
>>The problem here looks like something that is caused by something in
>>mm3, not in mm2, not linus.patch, and not
>>context-switch-accounting-fix.patch.
>>
>>
>>Off topic: it would be good if you could try the as disk scheduler
>>in mm3. I recall you had some problems with it earlier, but they
>>should be fixed in mm3. Thanks.
>>
>
>Ok Nick.  I'll reboot tomorrow without the elevator argument.  Right 
>now, amanda is fixin to be fired off in about 25 minutes and I want 
>to see how badly its estimate phase hogs the machine using the cfq 
>scheduler.  With the -mm2 as, it was almost psychedelic to watch the 
>mouse move.
>

OK thanks. I think this problem you were seeing _was_ interrupt latency
due to AS doing millions of WARNs. It should be fixed in mm3.

>
>Also off topic re mouse performance, and I expect this is an X issue, 
>but when its been blanked because I'm typing, it takes about a full 
>seconds worth of hand waving before it becomes visible again.  This 
>is an X issue and I should go away, right?
>

Sounds like it.


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