From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932953AbXEAHFi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 03:05:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932932AbXEAHFi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 03:05:38 -0400 Received: from omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.83.195]:41238 "EHLO omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933020AbXEAHFg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 03:05:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4636E6A5.8040102@bigpond.net.au> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:05:09 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , William Lee Irwin III CC: Chris Han , Con Kolivas , Jake Moilanen , Paolo Ornati , Ingo Molnar Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at oaamta05ps.mx.bigpond.com from [60.231.39.149] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Tue, 1 May 2007 07:05:15 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The main change in this version is to fix bugs introduced to SPA schedulers during modifications to handle a recent change to the scheduler driver interface to take account of recent changes to the load balancing code. This patch also includes a patch to sis900 code to enable it to boot on my system for testing (patch supplied by Neil Horman). A patch for 2.6.21 is available at: and a quilt/gquilt patch series is available at: Very Brief Documentation: You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot time by adding: cpusched= to the boot command line where is one of: ingosched, ingo_ll, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs or zaphod. If you don't change the default when you build the kernel the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the contents of: /proc/scheduler Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in: /sys/cpusched// Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce