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

Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-06-06T17:40:06Z

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 17:39, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> This is an update of the scheduler policy mechanism rewrite using the
> infrastructure of the current O(1) scheduler. Slight changes from the
> original design require a detailed description. The change to the original
> design has enabled all known corner cases to be abolished and cpu
> distribution to be much better maintained. It has proven to be stable in my
> testing and is ready for more widespread public testing now.

I'm impressed... I'm currently playing with linux-2.6.7-rc2-bk7 plus
staircase plus autoswappiness and my system behaves exceptionally. It
seems pretty responsive even when under heavy load (while true; do a=2;
done). Nice work.