2.6.7-ck1

Con Kolivas
2004-06-25T13:48:34Z

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Updated patchset.
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness with
specific emphasis on the desktop, but has scheduler changes
suitable/configurable to any workload

http://kernel.kolivas.org

Summary of features:
- - staircase7.4 scheduler

- - batch scheduling

- - isochronous scheduling

- - autoregulated swappiness

- - autotuned vm page inactivation

- - supermount-ng

- - default cfq I/O scheduler

- - config hz

- - bootsplash v3.14

Changed:
- - Updated staircase scheduler. Significant bugfixes and improvements
have been made to the staircase scheduler since v7 that was in 2.6.7-ck1
and updating is highly recommended. See separate announcement on lkml.

Added:
- - autotuned vm page inactivation
This extends the functionality of the autoregulated swappiness to now
bias the active/inactive ratio according to the percentage of physical
ram used by application pages. It has the effect of avoiding swap much
more effectively, and drastically reducing the time spent in swap-thrash
scenarios over and above the effectiveness of the autoregulated
swappiness. The 2 are rolled into one sysctl which allows them to be
disabled together (on by default) at /proc/sys/vm/autoregulate

- - default cfq i/o scheduler
Self explanatory

- - config hz
Self explanatory

- - bootsplash
See www.bootsplash.org

A full set of split-out patches are available with a series that can be
used with the quilt application.

The FAQ on my web page have also been updated.

Comments, questions, suggestions welcome.

Cheers,
Con
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