Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:51:55 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?! |
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
>Now testing Con's noint patch against 2.6.0. It returns somewhat simmilar >results to Nick's w29p2, and behaves normally. The only noticeable difference >is that a simple task like "while :; do :; done&" eats about 100ms each second, >so if you start 10 of these, you're able to type only once a second (tested). >But I understand that this 'dumbness' was exactly the goal of this patch. >I think that I'll try to use 2.6 + Nick's scheduler for some time on my >notebook to get an overall idea on how it behaves. > >BTW, Nick, does your patch rely on -mm1 exclusive features, or would it be >possible to back-port it to plain 2.6 ? >
No, you should be able to port it to 2.6 quite easily if you just apply the scheduler patches from -mm1 to it first. I'll do a proper release in the next day or so and include patches for both trees.
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