Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

Thomas Davis
2004-08-26T18:31:53Z

Jurriaan wrote:
> 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?
>

More than likely. I had found it's worse with X running (see ioperm vs. iopl thread)

> Is that fixed in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1?
>

Good question, and how about the ioperm/iopl bit map problem?
thomas