Re: Announce - Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler v0.42

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 22:55, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:12:14PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > 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.pat
> > > >ch
> > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.41.p
> > > >atch
> > > >
> > > > and an incremental for those on 0.40:
> > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/sched-imp
> > > >leme 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
>
> Will give it a shoot ASAP, probably this week-end. I'm too short in time
> this week.

Great, thanks. By then there will almost certainly be a 0.43 so no rush.

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