It was suggested that I show a bit more info.

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:16 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

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> A 100% hog overhead measurement proggy pinned to the same CPU as a make -j10
> 
> pert/s:      229 >5484.43us:       41 min:  0.15 max:12069.42 avg:2193.81 sum/s:502382us overhead:50.24%
> pert/s:      222 >5652.28us:       43 min:  0.46 max:12077.31 avg:2248.56 sum/s:499181us overhead:49.92%
> pert/s:      211 >5809.38us:       43 min:  0.16 max:12064.78 avg:2381.70 sum/s:502538us overhead:50.25%
> pert/s:      223 >6147.92us:       43 min:  0.15 max:16107.46 avg:2282.17 sum/s:508925us overhead:50.49%
> pert/s:      218 >6252.64us:       43 min:  0.16 max:12066.13 avg:2324.11 sum/s:506656us overhead:50.27%

The same load without per tty task groups.

pert/s:       31 >40475.37us:        3 min:  0.37 max:48103.60 avg:29573.74 sum/s:916786us overhead:90.24%
pert/s:       23 >41237.70us:       12 min:  0.36 max:56010.39 avg:40187.01 sum/s:924301us overhead:91.99%
pert/s:       24 >42150.22us:       12 min:  8.86 max:61265.91 avg:39459.91 sum/s:947038us overhead:92.20%
pert/s:       26 >42344.91us:       11 min:  3.83 max:52029.60 avg:36164.70 sum/s:940282us overhead:91.12%
pert/s:       24 >44262.90us:       14 min:  5.05 max:82735.15 avg:40314.33 sum/s:967544us overhead:92.22%
                                                      ^^^^^usecs   ^^^^^usecs                       ^^the competition got

Average service latency is an order of magnitude better with tty_sched.
(Imagine that pert is Xorg or whatnot instead)

Using Mathieu Desnoyers' wakeup-latency testcase (attached):

With taskset -c 3 make -j 10 running..

taskset -c 3 ./wakeup-latency& sleep 30;killall wakeup-latency

without:
maximum latency: 42963.2 µs
average latency: 9077.0 µs
missed timer events: 0

with:
maximum latency: 4160.7 µs
average latency: 149.4 µs
missed timer events: 0

Patch makes a big difference in desktop feel under hefty load here.

	-Mike