From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993094AbXDSCIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993108AbXDSCIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:08:48 -0400 Received: from mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.51]:51331 "EHLO mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993094AbXDSCIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:08:47 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Al Boldi Subject: Announce - Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler v0.42 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:12:14 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Matt Mackall , Peter Williams , Mike Galbraith , Bill Huey , William Lee Irwin III , Gene Heskett , Willy Tarreau , linux kernel mailing list References: <200704190959.06432.kernel@kolivas.org> <200704191041.13352.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200704191041.13352.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704191212.15151.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:41, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:59, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu > > schedulers, as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual > > deadline fair designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase > > Deadline cpu scheduler which improve behaviour likely in a noticeable > > fashion and released version 0.41. > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.41.patch > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.41.patch > > > > and an incremental for those on 0.40: > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/sched-impleme > >nt -staircase-deadline-scheduler-further-improvements.patch > > > > Remember to renice X to -10 for nicest desktop behaviour :) > > > > Have fun. > > Oops forgot to cc a few people > > Nick you said I should still have something to offer so here it is. > Peter you said you never saw this design (it's a dual array affair sorry). > Gene and Willy you were some of the early testers that noticed the > advantages of the earlier designs, > Matt you did lots of great earlier testing. > WLI you inspired a lot of design ideas. > Mike you were the stick. > And a few others I've forgotten to mention and include. Version 0.42 http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.42.patch -- -ck