staircase deadline 0.36 backport 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7

staircase deadline 0.36 backport 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7

[Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]]

Hi all,

Backports of the staircase deadline cpu scheduler for 2.6.18.8 and
2.6.19.7 kernels are available at http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca/.

Also, Debian Etch 4.0 kernels for both i686 and x86_64 are available.
Fedora Core 6 kernels might also be available later today/tomorrow.

Both patches looks quite stable.  I've been able to fix the 2.6.19
backport by reversing this patch: "[PATCH] move_task_off_dead_cpu()
should be called with disabled ints" (see
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git;a=co
mmit;h=054b9108e01ef27e2e6b32b4226abb6024626f06).  I don't know if this
bug (see
http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca/kernel/debian/etch/x86_64/2.6.19/bug-2.6.19
.7-rsdl-033.jpg) can also affect a Vanilla 2.6.19.7 kernel or even the
actual mainline?  Duno if it would be worth investigating a bit further?

Although, here is a top of a 2.6.19.7 + SD 0.36 patch in action while
building 3 kernels at once and running a glxgears in foreground:
top - 12:39:39 up 17 min,  2 users,  load average: 5.84, 4.37, 2.20
Tasks: 162 total,   5 running, 157 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 87.0%us, 13.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
0.0%st
Cpu1  : 88.4%us, 11.6%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   2059940k total,  1249476k used,   810464k free,   137112k buffers
Swap:  1959888k total,        0k used,  1959888k free,   620552k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
15970 root      33   0 45016  36m 4520 R   18  1.8   0:00.54 cc1
16025 root       1   0 40904  32m 4444 R   18  1.6   0:00.53 cc1
16015 root      33   0 40620  32m 4496 R   17  1.6   0:00.52 cc1
13401 th0ma7     1   0 42356 9420 6700 R    6  0.5   1:16.13 glxgears
16589 root       1   0  3756  400  192 S    1  0.0   0:01.04 faked-sysv
 5012 root       5   0 91208  46m 7200 S    0  2.3   0:11.57 Xorg

Note that my KDE session/firefox/kontact/etc. was still pretty
responsive!

Vincent Fortier
Informatique
Environnement Canada

staircase deadline 0.37 backport 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 & debian sarge/etch kernel availability

[Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]]

 
Hi all,
 
Backports of the staircase deadline cpu scheduler version 0.37 for
2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 kernels are available at
http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca/.

Also, Debian Etch 4.0 and Sarge 3.1 kernels for i686 are available (Deb
etch amd64 is currently compiling and FC6 will follow).

Vincent Fortier
Informatique
Environnement Canada

Re: staircase deadline 0.37 backport 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 & debian sarge/etch kernel availability

[Xavier Bestel]

On ven, 2007-03-30 at 07:39 -0400, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Backports of the staircase deadline cpu scheduler version 0.37 for
> 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 kernels are available at
> http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca/.

BTW thanks a lot Vincent, I regularly use your .deb kernels (instead of
compiling them myself) for testing SD & CFS, they're working great !

	Xav