From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751616AbXCDMqL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:46:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751623AbXCDMqL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:46:11 -0500 Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.185]:41842 "EHLO mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751616AbXCDMqK (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:46:10 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:46:03 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck list References: <200703041800.53360.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703042247.44196.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703040724.34321.gene.heskett@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703040724.34321.gene.heskett@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703042346.04051.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. Yes, sorry. This is mutually exclusive with the -ck1 patch. It is a standalone piece of code. -- -ck