From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751594AbXCDMYh (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:24:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751596AbXCDMYg (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:24:36 -0500 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:64129 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751582AbXCDMYg (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:24:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:24:33 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler In-reply-to: <200703042247.44196.kernel@kolivas.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Con Kolivas , ck list Message-id: <200703040724.34321.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200703041800.53360.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703040608.53336.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200703042247.44196.kernel@kolivas.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: >On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: >> >This message is to announce the first general public release of the >> > "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler. >> >> I assume to test this, we select the deadline scheduler? > >No, only the "deadline" in the name is shared. This is a cpu process > scheduler whereas the deadline scheduler you're thinking of is an I/O > scheduler. To test this you just patch it in and it replaces the > current mainline cpu scheduler (the same way the staircase cpu > scheduler in -ck replaces it). Oh, then I tried to put the -ck1 patch on top of that, and blew the tree up. I'd built it the first time with the deadline scheduler as the default while I was waiting on your reply. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)