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Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 performance improvements (scheduler?)
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> PS. schedstats is great for this kind of thing. Very useful, minimally 
>  invasive, no impact unless configed in, and nothing measurable even then.
>  Hint. Hint ;-)

Ho hum.  It's up to the hordes of scheduler hackers really.  If they want,
and can agree upon a patch then go wild.  It should be against -mm minus
staircase, as there's a fair amount of scheduler stuff banked up for
post-2.6.8.