Comment # 105 on bug 1112824 from Dead Mozay

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #102)
> Quickly looking at the logs of comment 97, the main differences between two
> kernel configs are:
> 
>   CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y for Fedora
>   CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y for TW
> 
>   CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y for Fedora
>   CONFIG_PREEMPT=y for TW
> 
>   CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y for Fedora
>   CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=n for TW
> 
>   CONFIG_SLUB=y for Fedora
>   CONFIG_SLAB=y for TW
> 
> The last one is unlikely influencing on the performance, though.
> The rest are subtle drivers and debugging configs.
> 
> So I'm building a TW kernel with the config changes above to follow Fedora
> in OBS home:tiwai:bsc1112824 repo.  The build should finish in an hour or so.
> 
> Please give it a try and see whether if this really improves things as
> advertised here.

I feel the gnome has become a bit more responsive, but I tried the free Nvidia
drivers, it could also be optimization nouveau driver in the kernel, This
should be checked on the Intel graphics, unfortunately I have no such
opportunity now