Scheduler Improvements Published For The Linux 4.6 Kernel

[tessio]

Afaik there's a CPU scheduler and a I/O scheduler, your (and mine) issue is with the latter. I'm using BFQ, much better so far than CFQ.

http://lwn.net/Articles/601799/

http://lwn.net/Articles/674308/

Let's hope it get accepted into mainline kernel.

[ObiWan]

I wonder, if any of those improvements can make Desktop/gaming experience more fluid?
BFS is nice, but I we need something that is in the kernel...

A kernel with CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y shouldn't be that different from a BFS kernel

[dimko]

A kernel with CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y shouldn't be that different from a BFS kernel

I read about it - it's basically auto niceness.
Niceness in vanilla kernel does nothing to make FPS smoother under load.
I manually set all processes to priority 20, then made game -19, no difference whatsoever. So i don't think it will in any way help.

[cj.wijtmans]

I read about it - it's basically auto niceness.
Niceness in vanilla kernel does nothing to make FPS smoother under load.
I manually set all processes to priority 20, then made game -19, no difference whatsoever. So i don't think it will in any way help.

There are different things to look at regarding performance of games, FPS is a very bad indicator of performance. You can have bad frames and never notice it. What is your bottleneck? if its the gpu than most likely you cant do much regarding performance. Check if all cores are below 100% . When it really comes down to latency disable all periodic things such as garbage collectors and watchdogs that increase latency, it is subtle but you can notice the difference especially when you are on CONFIG_PREEMPT. Because of this update i may give deadline a shot but with two SSDs, a gpu bottleneck and expert kernel tweaks to reduce latency i wont notice any difference i believe.

[dimko]

There are different things to look at regarding performance of games, FPS is a very bad indicator of performance. You can have bad frames and never notice it. What is your bottleneck? if its the gpu than most likely you cant do much regarding performance. Check if all cores are below 100% . When it really comes down to latency disable all periodic things such as garbage collectors and watchdogs that increase latency, it is subtle but you can notice the difference especially when you are on CONFIG_PREEMPT. Because of this update i may give deadline a shot but with two SSDs, a gpu bottleneck and expert kernel tweaks to reduce latency i wont notice any difference i believe.

Nah, not GPU most likely. GTX780TI, AMD Vishera. Custom compiled kernel + nvidia binary. Need to check if i enabled watchdog, which i think I did not. Cores are never 100%. There are a few programs yet which can take advantage of 8 cores(4FPU cores) at speed of 4GHz.

[cj.wijtmans]

Nah, not GPU most likely. GTX780TI, AMD Vishera. Custom compiled kernel + nvidia binary. Need to check if i enabled watchdog, which i think I did not. Cores are never 100%. There are a few programs yet which can take advantage of 8 cores(4FPU cores) at speed of 4GHz.

there is also the wakeup sources garbage collector in the ACPI settings. there are a few other periodic checks that i believe increase latency and you can check.