Re: [REPORT] First "glitch1" results, 2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5 + SD 0.46

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Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ed Tomlinson <[email protected]> wrote:

SD 0.46		1-2 FPS
cfs v5 nice -19	219-233 FPS
cfs v5 nice 0 	1000-1996
   cfs v5 nice -10  60-65 FPS

the problem is, the glxgears portion of this test is an _inverse_ testcase.

The reason? glxgears on true 3D hardware will _not_ use X, it will directly use the 3D driver of the kernel. So by renicing X to -19 you give the xterms more chance to show stuff - the performance of the glxgears will 'degrade' - but that is what you asked for: glxgears is 'just another CPU hog' that competes with X, it's not a "true" X client.

if you are after glxgears performance in this test then you'll get the best performance out of this by renicing X to +19 or even SCHED_BATCH.

Several points on this...

First, I don't think this is accelerated in the way you mean, the machine is a test server, with motherboard video using the 945G video driver. Given the limitations of the support in that setup, I don't think it qualified as "true 3D hardware," although I guess I could try using the vesafb version as a test.

The 2nd thing I note is that on FC6 this scheduler seems to confuse 'top' to some degree, since the glxgears is shown as taking 51% of the CPU (one core), while the state breakdown shows about 73% in idle, waitio, and int. image attached.

After I upgrade the kernel and cfs to the absolute latest I'll repeat this, as well as test with vesafb, and my planned run under heavy load.

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Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
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