debloat-testing: Kitten not eaten - was Re: [Bloat] Please enter issues into the issue tracker - Issue system organisation needed.
Dave Täht
d at taht.net
Thu Feb 24 18:18:49 EST 2011
Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org> writes:
> On 02/24/2011 01:31 PM, Dave Täht wrote:
>
>> There is a debloat-testing Linux kernel repo up at:
>>
>> http://git.infradead.org/debloat-testing.git
>>
>> It builds, I haven't booted into it yet. The patch set is pretty minor,
>> if you already have a Linux-2.6 tree it pays to use:
>>
>> git clone --references your_existing_tree git://git.infradead.org/debloat-testing.git
>>
>> (Doesn't have SFB yet, either. John?)
>
> I built it; it booted, worked on my eDP display, and did my usual ping
> + scp test (to a local system, so that the 802.11 would be saturated).
>
> OOTB, it controls the latency quite decently (no more than a few
> milliseconds), but the drop rate on the ICMP running at the same time
This brings the iwl driver down from 130+ms to a few ms!?
How many more orders of magnitude do you need for *awesome*, rather than decent?
> is quite high (~25%). Pretty uncontrolled experiment; my son is home
> ;-).
That IS high. Perhaps the iwl and the linvilles alg are competing
overmuch. Does your card do aggregation?
> - Jim
>
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Dave Taht
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