From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjiKm-0003sA-Mm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:36:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 401B0E09B0; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF6AE09B0 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4531671AC for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:36:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.401, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3VLfHIfDed4i for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261A8671A9 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjiKV-0000u1-1c for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:36:31 +0200 Received: from athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.22.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:36:31 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:36:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:36:14 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-376481.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 82b1bf50-a41d-46ef-b169-33afb6ba21a9 X-Archives-Hash: fa02a0acd735694aa2f3d7df2c05de68 I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called "BFS": http://lwn.net/Articles/350100 Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with it here: http://lwn.net/Articles/350820 If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to give that one a try. In my case, it helped immensely, especially with sound latency and skips and other artifacts during real-time playback (I was not using an RT kernel before that though). Note that BFS has been updated to 0.206 since I wrote that. The patch to kernel 2.6.30 and docs can be found at: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs