From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S637760AbXDSM7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:59:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S637762AbXDSM7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:59:39 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:2012 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S637760AbXDSM7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:59:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:55:24 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Con Kolivas Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Al Boldi , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Matt Mackall , Peter Williams , Mike Galbraith , Bill Huey , William Lee Irwin III , Gene Heskett , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Announce - Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler v0.42 Message-ID: <20070419125524.GB27584@1wt.eu> References: <200704190959.06432.kernel@kolivas.org> <200704191041.13352.kernel@kolivas.org> <200704191212.15151.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200704191212.15151.kernel@kolivas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:12:14PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:41, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:59, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu > > > schedulers, as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual > > > deadline fair designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase > > > Deadline cpu scheduler which improve behaviour likely in a noticeable > > > fashion and released version 0.41. > > > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.41.patch > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.41.patch > > > > > > and an incremental for those on 0.40: > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/sched-impleme > > >nt -staircase-deadline-scheduler-further-improvements.patch > > > > > > Remember to renice X to -10 for nicest desktop behaviour :) > > > > > > Have fun. > > > > Oops forgot to cc a few people > > > > Nick you said I should still have something to offer so here it is. > > Peter you said you never saw this design (it's a dual array affair sorry). > > Gene and Willy you were some of the early testers that noticed the > > advantages of the earlier designs, > > Matt you did lots of great earlier testing. > > WLI you inspired a lot of design ideas. > > Mike you were the stick. > > And a few others I've forgotten to mention and include. > > Version 0.42 > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.42.patch Will give it a shoot ASAP, probably this week-end. I'm too short in time this week. Regards, Willy