On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:51 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

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> The scenario which was previously cured was this:
> taskset -c 1 nice -n 0 ./massive_intr 2 9999
> taskset -c 1 nice -n 5 ./massive_intr 2 9999
> click link
> (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shubu/talks/cachescrub-prdc2004.ppt) to bring
> up browser and OpenOffice Impress.
> 
> Xorg (at nice -5 + above scenario) latency samples:
> se.wait_max              :            57985337
> se.wait_max              :            25163510
> se.wait_max              :            37005538
> se.wait_max              :            66986511
> se.wait_max              :            53990868
> se.wait_max              :            80976761
> se.wait_max              :            96967501
> se.wait_max              :            80989254
> se.wait_max              :            53990897
> se.wait_max              :           181963905
> se.wait_max              :            85985181

To be doubly sure of the effect on the pinned tasks + migrating Xorg
scenario, I just ran the above test 10 times with virgin devel source.
Maximum Xorg latency was 20ms.

	-Mike

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