2.6.7-ck2 (was Re: 2.6.7-ck1)

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

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Of course that should have been ck2 :P

Con Kolivas wrote:
| 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
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| - batch scheduling
|
| - isochronous scheduling
|
| - autoregulated swappiness
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| - autotuned vm page inactivation
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| - supermount-ng
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| - default cfq I/O scheduler
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| - config hz
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| - bootsplash v3.14
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|
| 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.
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|
| The FAQ on my web page have also been updated.
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| Comments, questions, suggestions welcome.
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|
| Cheers,
| Con
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