Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
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> the attached patch (against BK-curr) implements more finegrained timeslice
> distribution, without changing the total balance of timeslices, by
> recalculating the priority of CPU-bound tasks at a finer granularity, and
> by roundrobining tasks. Right now this new granularity is 50 msecs (the
> default timeslice for default priority tasks is 100 msecs).
I've been running this on the problematic desktop for a couple of days now.
All interactivity problems are 100% solved. Smooth, fast, responsive,
unjerky, etc. Congratulations and thanks; it is a big win.
The various starvation situations all appear to be fixed.
> Could people, who can reproduce 'audio skips' kind of problems even with
> BK-curr, give this patch a go?
I do not test for multimedia performance and cannot comment on this.
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