Re: must-fix list, v5

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
>
>  o O(1) scheduler starvation, poor behaviour seems unresolved.
>  
>    Jens: "I've been running 2.5.67-mm3 on my workstation for two days, and
>    it still doesn't feel as good as 2.4.  It's not a disaster like some
>    revisisons ago, but it still has occasional CPU "stalls" where it feels
>    like a process waits for half a second of so for CPU time.  That's is very
>    noticable."
>  
>     Also see Mike Galbraith's work.
>  
>    Conclusion: the scheduler has issues, lots of people working on it.  Rick
>    Lindsley, Andrew Theurer.

Actually this part should have been deleted.

There have been a lot of sporadic CPU scheduler problem reports and a lot
of fixes, some in just the past day or two.

So apart from David MT's discoveries we shall be wiping the slate clean and
awaiting new reports.