[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.44

[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.44

[Con Kolivas]

A significant bugfix for forking tasks was just posted, so here is an updated 
version of the staircase deadline cpu scheduler. This may cause noticeable
behavioural improvements under certain workloads (such as compiling software 
with make).

Thanks to Al Boldi for making me check the fork code!

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.44.patch
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.44.patch

Incrementals in
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7/
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/

Renicing X to -10, while not essential, is preferable.

See the patch just posted called 'sched: implement staircase scheduler yaf 
fix' for full changelog.

-- 
-ck

RE: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.44

[Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : ck-bounces@vds.kolivas.org 
> [mailto:ck-bounces@vds.kolivas.org] De la part de Con Kolivas
> Envoyé : 21 avril 2007 03:57
> 
> A significant bugfix for forking tasks was just posted, so 
> here is an updated version of the staircase deadline cpu 
> scheduler. This may cause noticeable behavioural improvements 
> under certain workloads (such as compiling software with make).
> 
> Thanks to Al Boldi for making me check the fork code!
> 
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.44.patch
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.44.patch
> 
> Incrementals in
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7/
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/
> 
> Renicing X to -10, while not essential, is preferable.
> 
> See the patch just posted called 'sched: implement staircase 
> scheduler yaf fix' for full changelog.

Kernels for FC6 x86_64 & i686 using SD 0.44 and latest source (2944) now available at http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca

Note that backport patches for 2.6.18 & 2.6.19 kernels are also available.

> 
> --
> -ck
> 

Again, nice work CK!

-vin