From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965597AbcIWAgy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:36:54 -0400 Received: from mail11.tpgi.com.au ([203.12.160.161]:55394 "EHLO mail11.tpgi.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964851AbcIWAgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:36:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3201 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:36:52 EDT X-TPG-Junk-Status: Message not scanned X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed X-TPG-Abuse: host=[220.240.178.83]; ip=220.240.178.83; date=Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:36:44 +1000 From: Con Kolivas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: axboe@fb.com Subject: [ANNOUNCE] linux-4.7-ck5 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:36:39 +1000 Message-ID: <2474593.neva78N1XK@hex> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.7.4-ck5; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Announcing the latest release of the -ck patchset for improved responsiveness and interactivity. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.7/4.7-ck5/ This is normally just a branded version of BFS with some different default kernel options, however this version incorporates Jens Axboe's writeback throttling patch version 7 which in my testing made a dramatic improvement to behaviour under heavy write loads (no benchmarks.) https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=147325975312628 A note about CPU scheduler cgroups - BFS does not support any of the cgroup features but does implement a basic stub for the primary "CPU controller" cgroup which creates the relevant cgroup filesystem but using it does nothing. The reason for implementing this was that some applications now refuse to work without it though they'll happily work with these stubs, even if they don't do anything. Enjoy! お楽しみ下さい -- -ck