>> > the "desktop tuning" of making the max timeslice==min timeslice. Try an
>> > -mm kernel with the scheduler tunables patch and try playing with the
>> > max timeslice. Most have found that <=25 will usually stop these skips.
>> > The default max timeslice of 300ms is just too long for the desktop and
>> > interactivity estimator.
>>
>> Heh, cool. I have the same patch in my tree too, fixed it without rebooting
>> even ;-) Still a *tiny* bit of skipping, but infinitely better than it was.
>
> Fixed without rebooting? You binary-patched
> kernel or what?
> Pavel
Nope, the sched tunables patch from Robert (which is in -mjb and -mm,
so I was already running) exposes those parameters out to userspace
for sysctl to change ... I just ran sysctl once, and it was done ;-)
M.
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