Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

Jurriaan
2004-08-26T14:33:28Z

From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:07:39PM +1000
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/
> >
> >- nicksched is still here. There has been very little feedback, except
> >that
> > it seems to slow some workloads on NUMA.
>
> The only feedback on nickshed was that it hurt NUMA
> somewhat, SMT interactivity was broken (an easy enough oversight)

I take it that was why changing consoles between mutt and slrn would
include a pause of several seconds on a system with a single,
hyperthreaded cpu?

Is that fixed in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1?

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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