Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

[Rodney Gordon II <meff@pobox.com>]

On Sunday 04 March 2007 01:00, Con Kolivas wrote:
> This message is to announce the first general public release of the
> "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler.
>
> Based on previous work from the staircase cpu scheduler I set out to
> design, from scratch, a new scheduling policy design which satisfies every
> requirement for SCHED_NORMAL (otherwise known as SCHED_OTHER) task
> management.
>

Con, you've really outdone yourself this time ! :D

As a long time user of the -ck patchset, RSDL is a welcome change, and a great 
piece of code to play around with, and USE!

Booted up on my system perfectly, Pentium-D 830 3GHz, 1.5GB RAM.

No problems whatsoever so far, using 0.26. I can launch up a bunch of encode 
jobs, in SCHED_NORMAL even, and still have low latency on my desktop (I know 
it's not low latency _specific_ code, but it works very well).

I guess all I can say is.. wow. This code isn't "prime time" ready, yet.. But 
it can be, and would be a great addition to mainline.

Hell, a little tuning and merging this with a few current ck patches could 
make a damn fine kernel, and probably beat out the original staircase in 
desktops. :)

Keep up the good work !
-r

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