From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 23:31:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB53D37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [205.130.220.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0131C43F75 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h337V1Z30208; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 02:31:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 02:31:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson To: Vallo Kallaste In-Reply-To: <20030403072409.GA1429@kevad.internal> Message-ID: <20030403022937.J64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ULE nice behavior fixed. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 07:31:05 -0000 On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:35:59PM -0500, Jeff Roberson > wrote: > > > Do you know of any problem other than idlepri breakage? I just fixed > > that. I'm about to get on a plane so I don't have time to benchmark it. > > If you have a chance I'd love to see how the most recent fixes effect your > > buildworld time. > > > > I still have to microoptimize the code a bit to get rid of switch > > statements etc, but it all works. > > Interactivity is still worse under ULE. It's quite noticeable and I > tested it on two SMP boxes by running two simple loops in kind of: > for ((;;)); do let $((4+4)); done # this is bash specific > > The loops ran under nice +20. Typing in the xterm is jerky, > characters will not show up immediately, but in small "bursts". I > mean that about three characters typed in will show up immediately, > then small pause happens and a burst of characters (which queued up > in the pause) will show up. This is annoying. Starting up xterm > takes more time as well, but I can live with that. > -- This is strange, I am not seeing any of this behavior. What is the version of your sched_ule.c? I made more changes very recently. Thanks, Jeff