Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:46:45AM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Now that I've tested 2.6.0-test-1-wli (William Lee Irwin's Tree) for over a 
> week, I thought about, that the problem might _not_ be only the O(1) 
> Scheduler, because -wli has changed almost nothing to the scheduler stuff, 
> it's almost 2.6.0-test1 code and running that kernel, my system is _alot_ 
> more responsive than 2.6.0-test1 or 2.6.0-test1-mm* or all the Oxint 
> scheduler fixes have ever been.
> Strange no?
> P.S.: I've not tested Ingo's G3 scheduler fix yet. More to come.

I've no plausible explanation for this; perhaps the only possible one
is that one of the algorithms that was sped up was behaving badly enough
to interfere with scheduling.


-- wli