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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.46
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:21:08 +1000
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On Monday 23 April 2007 03:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> mån 2007-04-23 klockan 01:03 +1000 skrev Con Kolivas:
> > 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...
>
> This one broke 2.6.20.7 build...
>
> kernel/sched.c: In function ‘dependent_sleeper’:
> kernel/sched.c:3319: error: ‘DEF_TIMESLICE’ undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> kernel/sched.c:3319: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
> once
> kernel/sched.c:3319: error: for each function it appears in.)

Apologies it was a blind merge.

Use this instead
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.46-1.patch

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