<font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Is this something that will work with any of the Kernels that Ubuntu Studio uses?</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/17371/print">http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/17371/print</a><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">"</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u>patch</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> [2] by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith adds a mere 233 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler, but it cuts desktop latency down by a factor of ten. That's impressive — it's almost like getting a new computer. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">In the Linux Kernel Mailing List, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u>Linus Torvalds himself praised the performance boost</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> [3] he gets from the patch.</span>"</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">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"</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">You wouldn't think that such a simple patch could make such a big difference, but the proof is there. I've tried it myself and I was impressed. You can see for it yourself in these</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u>before- and after-the-patch Phoronix videos</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">[6].</span></div>
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<strong>Source URL:</strong><br><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/17371/the_linux_desktop_may_soon_be_a_lot_faster">http://blogs.computerworld.com/17371/the_linux_desktop_may_soon_be_a_lot_faster</a></div><div class="pfp-links">
<p class="links"><strong>Links:</strong><br>[1] <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/15111/linux_powers_the_fastest_computers_on_the_planet">http://blogs.computerworld.com/15111/linux_powers_the_fastest_computers_on_the_planet</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128978361700898&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128978361700898&w=2</a><br>[3] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128979084506774&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128979084506774&w=2</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html">http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html</a><br>[5] <a href="http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php">http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php</a><br>
[6] <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=2">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=2</a><br>[7] <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/17351/fedora_like_ubuntu_to_dump_x_for_wayland">http://blogs.computerworld.com/17351/fedora_like_ubuntu_to_dump_x_for_wayland</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/17303/ubuntu_abandons_x_server_for_wayland">http://blogs.computerworld.com/17303/ubuntu_abandons_x_server_for_wayland</a><br>[9] <a href="http://wayland.freedesktop.org/">http://wayland.freedesktop.org/</a></p>
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