From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161437AbWASVps (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:45:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161439AbWASVps (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:45:48 -0500 Received: from omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.93.195]:8531 "EHLO omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161437AbWASVpr (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:45:47 -0500 Message-ID: <43D00887.6010409@bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:45:43 +1100 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Chris Han , Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III , Jake Moilanen , Paolo Ornati Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:45:44 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This version continues the major gutting of the SPA based schedulers to reduce overhead. The inclusion of the mechanisms for gathering and displaying accrued scheduling statistics have been remove as they are not an integral part of the scheduler and were mainly there to help with tuning. Sorry Jake, if you still need these for your genetic algorithm work I can provide a patch to add them to all schedulers? Additionally, the mechanism for auto detection and preferential treatment of media streamers in the spa_ws scheduler has been removed. The reason for this is that my testing shows that the performance of media streamers on spa_ws is adequate without it. Modifications have been made to spa_ws to (hopefully) address the issues raised by Paolo Ornati recently and a new entitlement based interpretation of "nice" scheduler, spa_ebs, which is a cut down version of the Zaphod schedulers "eb" mode has been added as this mode of Zaphod performed will for Paolo's problem when he tried it at my request. Paolo, could you please give these a test drive on your problem? A patch for 2.6.16-rc1 is available at: and a patch for 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 is available at: Very Brief Documentation: You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot time by adding: cpusched= to the boot command line where is one of: ingosched, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs or zaphod. If you don't change the default when you build the kernel the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the contents of: /proc/scheduler Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in: /sys/cpusched// Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce