Re: One last tweak for perfection.

From: Ove Karlsen
Date: Wed Jan 16 2013 - 09:35:52 EST


On 1/16/2013 3:28 PM, Ove Karlsen wrote:
On 1/16/2013 3:27 PM, Ove Karlsen wrote:
On 1/16/2013 3:25 PM, Ove Karlsen wrote:
On 1/16/2013 3:02 PM, Ove Karlsen wrote:
What kernelthreads _needs_ to run? So I can put them on max pri
renice, along with reniced X and app. And everything else on idle
priority. So to make the app run at max efficiency, and not be
starved by kernelthreads waiting. (Or any other consideration, for
giving maximal cpu to app. Even small tweaks.)

To read my research so far, (and I have done much, about 2 years of
tweakin´ on and off.) Please see
http://paradoxuncreated.com/Blog/wordpress/?p=2268

Main points, no highres timer, 90hz timer, + a lot of smaller tweaks.
This makes an amazing linux-desktop, for gaming, video and audio. The
popular computer for everyman. Also boosts performance, for
resource-constrained systems.

For more advanced hacking, one could also get in there, and make
several HZ timers, extremely low ones, for the components who only
require that, and 90hz for video-components, for instance (low
video/frame jitter), and higher if anything should require that.

Also system-wide, software should be synced to hz, if required for
lowest jitter, such as animations and videoplayers, and videoplayers
automatically change refresh rate to a multiple of video framerate.

Peace Be With You.
PS: I forgot the realtime sincs of drivers. HZ is really not an issue
to debate for me, 90 hz is sufficient, and only to userspace, right?
So yea, forget the talk on HZ.

Peace Be With You.

And "synced to hz" with regards to video, is the screen hz ofcourse, not
kernel.

Peace Be With You.

(resendt due to lkml rejecting html mail)


Ok, one last argument on HZ. Screenrefresh updates HZ counter, or similar idea to get vsynced HZ (minimal hz needed). Ofcourse it must work better than the 90hz optimal on current timing system. A screen refresh of 72.7 seems optimal, (quiet non-noisy, non-flickering), and so Hz could be reduced to 72.7. Peace Be With You!
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