Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

[Nick Piggin]

ismail dönmez wrote:
> cartman@southpark:~$ dmesg | grep sched
> Using anticipatory io scheduler
>
> Problem is I rarely do this copy operations like once a week or 2
> weeks. Guess there is no scheduler that fits both desktop usage +
> these kinds of operations?

For our benefit, could you try to recreate the situation with
the cfq scheduler, and see if it still skips? If not, also do
a run with the anticpatory scheduler again to see if your
recreation was enough to cause a skip there...

That would at least point to the culprit (disk or cpu starvation)

Thanks
Nick
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