From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030936AbXDVPEK (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:04:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030937AbXDVPEJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:04:09 -0400 Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.201]:54061 "EHLO mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030936AbXDVPEI (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:04:08 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: linux kernel mailing list , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Mike Galbraith , Al Boldi , Peter Williams , Nick Piggin , Matt Mackall , Bill Huey , William Lee Irwin III , Willy Tarreau , Gene Heskett Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.46 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:03:14 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704230103.15265.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Length: 1518 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yet another significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing more bugs. As requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch adds -sd046 to the kernel version. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.46.patch http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.46.patch Renicing X to -10, while not essential, may be desirable on the desktop. Unlike the CFS scheduler which renices X without your intervention to nice -19, the SD patches do not alter nice level on their own. See the patch just posted called 'sched: implement staircase deadline scheduler load weight fix' for details of the fixes. Thanks to all testing and giving feedback. Well I'm exhausted... -- -ck