Hi, I am working on the X scheduler.I am still in the process of formulating an idea on improving the scheduler. With Regards, Abhinav. <div>On 9/23/07, Daniel Stone <<a href="mailto:daniel@fooishbar.org">daniel@fooishbar.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 03:43:51PM -0400, Jeremy Bongio wrote: > I currently in grad school for comp sci and I was looking for a master's > thesis topic when someone mentioned the X server scheduler. > I read the documentation and code for the "Smart" Scheduler. > > It's a priority scheduler with some optimizations and looks as if it's about > 8 or 9 years old? > With recent developments I was thinking it may be fruitful to see if this > could be improved any further. This brings up a few questions. > > 1. Do you know if anyone else is working or discussed working on the > scheduler? Not really: it's being more or less left alone. > 2. In the documentation it mentions Keith Packard had interactivity and > benchmark numbers in mind. Does anyone know which > benchmarks he was speaking of or how he measured interactivity? Have you read <a href="http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2000/smart.html">http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2000/smart.html</a> ? That probably provides the best clues. > 3. Would there be interest in this? We're interested in anything that improves X, so yeah. :) Cheers, Daniel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9XfrUVYB1rKAgJQRAnAQAJwLviSaKVArEhNP/pCN+fO2i7mpEwCgxTdg U9EOQUrL0RDNn0UQL5wV9oU= =PEyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </blockquote></div>