[mythtv-users] the 200 line kernel patch... (task group per TTY scheduler)

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
>  In case you haven't seen the discussion over at Phoronix
> (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1)
>
> I haven't tested it yet, but even Linus thinks this is a "killer patch"
>
> So I think this is firmly one of those "real improvement" patches.
> Good job. Group scheduling goes from "useful for some specific server
> loads" to "that's a killer feature".
>
> The first thing I thought when I read about it was "hmmm.. I wonder what
> kind of effect this might have on MythTV/Frontend performance..."
>
> since it's not in mainline kernel yet, it wouldn't be easy to test, but I
> may play around with it in the next week or so and report back..

You're twelve hours too late, there is already an open thread on this topic...