Scheduler patch 02 available for testing
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Jul 23 12:47:56 PDT 2004
I've been working on the scheduler issues for the last two days.
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~dillon/sched02.patch
The work is intended to solve jerkiness / other scheduler issues related
to mixed batch / interactive loads. I fixed a number of low level issues
that were causing the scheduler to make bad choices in regards to what
to schedule, even in the face of properly working statistical measurements.
I also added a long-term interactivity measurement which so far appears
to do a good job discerning between, say, a buildworld and X/mozilla.
I'm not so sure how will it will do with, e.g. audio and video playback...
probably not so well with video in the face of other batch ops. It does
degrade pipe throughput slightly (mainly because the hacks I had
added to the existing scheduler to make pipe throughput better screwed
up other things so I backed them out in this patch).
In anycase, I'm looking for people to test the stability and value of
the changes verses what we had before, especially on MP systems. It
is entirely untested on MP systems.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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