From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767272AbXDTVjG (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:39:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767274AbXDTVjG (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:39:06 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]:19925 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767272AbXDTVjD (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:39:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZDfHqz5Vm/NHfvUKMIzrv2taLi4wdQ9s61OZNRtb+C7YRnaG3YLEeRgzxw7IvITfSe3rT1pvjVXfzHVE262bqw2xBoRAqQVicR6KN0Smoy9GTDI2EN1hyrXKQXOCJCJGjOxJ3kdWS9xYD6a7W1LRfJvEJmyYWtfgB4rSUxC6hRU= Message-ID: <1c1c86360704201439u26f06de4j3b7a53145b9e96e2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:39:01 +1200 From: "mdew ." To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070420140457.GA14017@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070420140457.GA14017@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Any chance of supporting 2.6.20? On 4/21/07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch > against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ > > this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving > interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: > > 11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) > > in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down > under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast > enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related > Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. > > Changes since -v3: > > - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, > OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). > (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling > details have been worked out.) > > - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems > > - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies > > As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more > than welcome, > > Ingo > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >