From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1) From: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: References: <1185536610.502.8.camel@localhost> <20070729170641.GA26220@elte.hu> <930f95dc0707291154j102494d9m58f4cc452c7ff17c@mail.gmail.com> <20070729204716.GB1578@elte.hu> <930f95dc0707291431j4e50214di3c01cd44b5597502@mail.gmail.com> <20070730114649.GB19186@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:51:17 -0700 Message-Id: <1185817877.2739.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Hawkins Cc: Jacob Braun , kriko , ck@vds.kolivas.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Martin Schwidefsky List-ID: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 02:25 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun wrote: > > On 7/30/07, kriko wrote: > > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers > > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1. > > > http://files.myopera.com/kriko/files/nvidia-installer.log > > > > > > If someone has the solution, please share. > > > > There is a patch for the nvidia drivers here: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=125959 > > The ATI drivers (current 8.39.4) were broken by > commit e21ea246bce5bb93dd822de420172ec280aed492 > Author: Martin Schwidefsky some fo these binary drivers do really really bad stuff (esp the AMD ones are infamous for that) and it's no surprise they might throw of a new scheduler. In fact, that's a bonus, some of those hacks are workarounds for older (often 2.4) scheduler corner cases and should just be removed from the driver to get better performance. Holding back linux for such hacky junk in binary drivers would be the absolute worst thing to do; even for people who insist on using these drivers over the open source ones, since the next rev of these drivers can now use the new scheduler and actually be faster with all the workarounds removed. Very likely the best thing to do is to contact the supplier of the driver (AMD or Nvidia) and ask them to fix it..... -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org