From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937049AbWLFSgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:36:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937052AbWLFSgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:36:47 -0500 Received: from [212.33.161.70] ([212.33.161.70]:32927 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937049AbWLFSgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:36:46 -0500 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.4 for 2.6.19 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:37:44 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612062137.44885.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Williams wrote: > > This version removes the hard/soft CPU rate caps from the SPA schedulers. > > A patch for 2.6.19 is available at: > > ownload> > > Very Brief Documentation: > > You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to > boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot > time by adding: > > cpusched= > > to the boot command line where is one of: ingosched, > ingo_ll, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs > or zaphod. If you don't change the default when you build the kernel > the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). > > The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the > contents of: > > /proc/scheduler > > Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in: > > /sys/cpusched// Thanks for keeping this patch in sync with the kernel. I tried spa_ebs and it still has some hang-ups under load. Setting iab_incr_threshold to 1000 smoothes this, but an obvious mouse-jitter can still be observed. Any hope this could be addressed? Thanks! -- Al