Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

Willy Tarreau
2007-03-13T04:32:21Z

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100
> >
> > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-sched-rsdl-0.
> > >30.patch
> >
> > FWIW, this boots and seems to work well on sparc64. Tested
> > on UP SunBlade1500 and 24cpu Niagara T1000.
>
> Very nice. Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry you have to work with such
> lousy hardware.

BTW, I don't know if you say this as a joke, but those are not necessarily
lousy hardware. Sun does lousy hardware when they put Sparcs in PCs (ultra5,
ultra10, blade100). But their servers generally are nice with large memory
busses and very scalable SMP architectures.

Regards,
Willy