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

Nick Piggin
2004-06-08T03:05:40Z

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?