Re: [PATCH] Staircase Scheduler v6.3 for 2.6.7-rc2

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 03:40, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 17:39, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> > This is an update of the scheduler policy mechanism rewrite using the
> > infrastructure of the current O(1) scheduler. Slight changes from the
> > original design require a detailed description. The change to the
> > original design has enabled all known corner cases to be abolished and
> > cpu distribution to be much better maintained. It has proven to be stable
> > in my testing and is ready for more widespread public testing now.
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> I'm impressed... I'm currently playing with linux-2.6.7-rc2-bk7 plus
> staircase plus autoswappiness and my system behaves exceptionally. It
> seems pretty responsive even when under heavy load (while true; do a=2;
> done). Nice work.

Sounds good.

Thanks for testing.

Con