From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266730AbUFYNse (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:48:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266732AbUFYNse (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:48:34 -0400 Received: from mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.167]:5790 "EHLO mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266730AbUFYNs2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:48:28 -0400 Message-ID: <40DC2D28.5020605@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:48:24 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040615) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: 2.6.7-ck1 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Updated patchset. These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness with specific emphasis on the desktop, but has scheduler changes suitable/configurable to any workload http://kernel.kolivas.org Summary of features: - - staircase7.4 scheduler - - batch scheduling - - isochronous scheduling - - autoregulated swappiness - - autotuned vm page inactivation - - supermount-ng - - default cfq I/O scheduler - - config hz - - bootsplash v3.14 Changed: - - Updated staircase scheduler. Significant bugfixes and improvements have been made to the staircase scheduler since v7 that was in 2.6.7-ck1 and updating is highly recommended. See separate announcement on lkml. Added: - - autotuned vm page inactivation This extends the functionality of the autoregulated swappiness to now bias the active/inactive ratio according to the percentage of physical ram used by application pages. It has the effect of avoiding swap much more effectively, and drastically reducing the time spent in swap-thrash scenarios over and above the effectiveness of the autoregulated swappiness. The 2 are rolled into one sysctl which allows them to be disabled together (on by default) at /proc/sys/vm/autoregulate - - default cfq i/o scheduler Self explanatory - - config hz Self explanatory - - bootsplash See www.bootsplash.org A full set of split-out patches are available with a series that can be used with the quilt application. The FAQ on my web page have also been updated. Comments, questions, suggestions welcome. Cheers, Con -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA3C0oZUg7+tp6mRURAth4AJ4kTxc2S7lRDGG8ifWIhRW9RfExoQCdFWFC huRhcF0ZyfWUP3GyVDQ5n5g= =Pwdl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----