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Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3



On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:32, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22:
> 
> > Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip
> > that we don't have specs for, for one.
> 
> Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think video 
> performance was somewhat better. Maybe I am wrong and memory cheats...

Possibly, it tends to. What exactly do you mean by 'video performance',
anyway?


> > Beware that at least the low latency patch needs fiddling with
> > arch/ppc/config.in to actually be enabled (check with grep LOLAT
> > .config), and that the preempt patch (which I assume you mean by R.
> > Love's) actually made things worse for me when I tried it on PPC a while
> > ago. This may have been fixed in the meantime though.
> 
> You're right! First line in the patch file says:
> 
> arch/i386/config.in         |    3 +
> 
> So the patch to the config.in file is only applied automatically for the 
> i386 architecture. Indeed CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL was not in my .config, so 
> should I paste this manually into arch/ppc/config.in? Would this be enough?

Look at the arch/i386/config.in hunk and merge it into
arch/ppc/config.in, or try the attached patch. Then, make oldconfig and
so on.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
--- ../linux-2.4.20-pre7-ben0/arch/ppc/config.in	2002-09-13 18:32:06.000000000 +0200
+++ arch/ppc/config.in	2002-10-01 01:10:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ choice 'Processor Type'	\
 	 POWER4        	        CONFIG_POWER4	\
 	 8xx			CONFIG_8xx"	6xx
 
+bool 'Low latency scheduling' CONFIG_LOLAT
+dep_bool 'Control low latency with sysctl' CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL $CONFIG_LOLAT
+
 if [ "$CONFIG_6xx" = "y" ]; then
   bool 'MPC8260 CPM Support' CONFIG_8260
 fi

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