From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932140AbXCJLny (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:43:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752819AbXCJLnx (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:43:53 -0500 Received: from mail29.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.171]:40152 "EHLO mail29.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752816AbXCJLnx (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:43:53 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/6] Rotating Staircase DeadLine scheduler for -mm Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:51:42 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: ck list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar References: <200703101825.13015.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200703101825.13015.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703102251.43211.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 10 March 2007 18:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > What follows this email is a series of patches for the RSDL cpu scheduler > as found in 2.6.21-rc3-mm1. This series is for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 and has some > bugfixes for the issues found so far. While it is not clear that I've > attended to all the bugs, it is worth noting that a complete rewrite is a > teensy bit more than a trivial change shall we say ;) > > akpm it still has trouble on that monster config of yours but there's so > much else going on in this -mm I don't know what to make of it. getting ppc > to work on qemu was more work than I thought and I haven't succeeded there > yet either :| > > A rolled up patch can be found here: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2-rsdl.patch > > Patch series here: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2/ > > and the patch series will follow. If time permits I will make available a > newer version for the older kernels soon. > > Changelog: > - Made it possible for the idle task to schedule on cpu_hotplug. > - Fixed the accounting across fork() > - Recalculation of priority for tasks that have already run this major > rotation and are now on the expired array was wrong. It has been corrected. > - The bitmap error that has been hit on some architectures was made more > verbose to make it clear that something has gone wrong, and will keep going > off if the problem persists. Oh and if it wasn't clear from this message. It still needs work to be bug free and probably shouldn't be part of -mm till I've ironed out all the oopsen. Thanks. -- -ck