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Subject: Re: [git pull request] scheduler updates
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:32 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
> > > 
> > > no big changes - 5 small fixes and 1 small cleanup:
> > 
> > FWIW, I spent a few hours testing these patches with various loads, 
> > and all was peachy here.  No multimedia or interactivity aberrations 
> > noted.
> 
> great! Btw., there's another refinement Peter and me are working on (see 
> the patch below): to place new tasks into the existing 'scheduling flow' 
> in a more seemless way. In practice this should mean less firefox spikes 
> during a kbuild workload. If you have some time to try it, could you add 
> the patch below to your tree too, and see what happens during fork-happy 
> workloads? It does not seem to be overly urgent to apply at the moment, 
> but it is a nice touch i think.

Sure, I'll give it a try.  (i was just adding likely post 24 merge
candidates to give them some runtime anyway, one more to the queue)

	-Mike