Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-07-29T15:26:54Z

On Sonntag, 29. Juli 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 01:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I never tried Con's patchset, for two reasons:
> > I tried his 2.4 patches ones, and I never saw any improvements. So when
> > people were reporting huge improvements with his SD scheduler, I compared
> > that with the reports of huge improvements with his 2.4 kernel patches.
>
> Well thats a reason if there ever were one...
>

yes, it is. The fans claimed once lots of stuff that was not true for me. So
why believing them 'now'?

> > ...
> > The second: too many patches. I only would have tried one or two, but the
> > ck-patchset is a lot bigger.. and I am a little bit uneasy about that.
>
> so use only the scheduler? nobody forces you to do many things..

but which one is needed?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.22/2.6.22-ck1/patches/

six patches who start with 'sched-' and which one is needed? and which is not?
Can I only use sched-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler.patch or do I need the
others too?

> Better than old vanilla yes, but than SD? well, you should give it a
> try.
>

see above.