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

Con Kolivas
2004-06-08T03:31:17Z

Quoting Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > At a guess I'd say either a) you're hitting some path in the kernel which
> > is going for a giant and bogus romp through memory, trashing CPU caches or
> > b) your workload really dislikes run-child-first-after-fork or c) the page
> > allocator is serving up pages which your access pattern dislikes or d)
> > something else.
> >
>
> e) it's the staircase scheduler patch?
>

Phy Prabab wrote:
>Could anyone suggest a way to understand why the
>difference between the 2.6 kernels and the 2.4
>kernels

I guess Phy better tell us if it's unique to staircase; and if so there's
clearly a bug unique to it.

Con