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Some notes and benchmarks about a performance regression in Mad Max's OpenGL rendering
2 Apr 2017 at 6:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI am running Manjaro and have noticed on kernel 4.9 this game stutters terribly, with frame rate wildly fluctuating. I booted up with kernel 4.5 and all of a sudden it's smoother than suppository dipped in Vaseline.
I also noticed that performance got lot worse with 4.9 kernel. After digging little deeper I noticed that threads were moving between cores quite frequently. So far htop has been best tool for debugging this as it shows which core thread uses and even shows threads by default.

I made a script that locks threads to dedicated cores and that helped quite a lot. Vulkan is now pretty smooth nearly all the time.

I uploaded the script to GitHub: https://github.com/anzah1/task-affinity-balancer [External Link]