From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266867AbUGLPK2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:10:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266864AbUGLPK2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:10:28 -0400 Received: from mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.160]:59867 "EHLO mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266867AbUGLPKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:10:08 -0400 Message-ID: <40F2A9C9.2040107@kolivas.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:10:01 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ck kernel mailing list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: 2.6.8-rc1 -ck snapshot X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC0E78BE9E892272BDA4E55B6" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC0E78BE9E892272BDA4E55B6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've posted a snapshot of the current -ck development against 2.6.8-rc1 website: http://kernel.kolivas.org rc1 patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.8-rc1/ The staircase scheduler has been basically unchanged for a couple of weeks now with no bugs showing up (woohoo). I've resynced with the current versions of the vm hacks, added Ingo's voluntary preempt patch, added Zwane's low latency irq locks, the suse writeback latency patch, badram, lufs and the fixed version of William Lee Irwin III's preempt test. Bootsplash is currently on the backburner. To preempt test is a debugging tool for latency and not intended for regular usage. Enable it in the config and set the bootparam preempt_thresh=1 for checking for when there are parts of kernel code that are not preemptible for >1ms (set it to any desired number or dont set it to disable it). It outputs to the syslog something like this: 4ms non-preemptible critical section violated 1 ms preempt threshold starting at exit_mmap+0x1c/0x188 and ending at exit_mmap+0x118/0x188 [] dec_preempt_count+0x14f/0x151 [] exit_mmap+0x118/0x188 etc. I'm running this kernel currently without problems. The badram and lufs features are compile tested only. Full patches: from_2.6.7_to_staircase7.A schedrange.diff schedbatch2.3.diff schediso2.3.diff autotune_swappiness.diff autotune_inactivation.diff supermount-ng204.diff defaultcfq.diff config_hz.diff voluntary-preempt-2.6.7-bk20-H3 patch-i386-irq_enable_spinlocks2 patch-ool-spinlocks 9000_SuSE-117-writeback-lat.patch wli_preempttest2 wli_preempttest2.1 BadRAM-2.6.5.2.patch.bz2 lufs-0.9.7-2.6.0-test9.patch.bz2 ck5version.diff Cheers, Con --------------enigC0E78BE9E892272BDA4E55B6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA8qnJZUg7+tp6mRURAiZ7AJ99R5q48gwKvMGpnkkPyaJGgb2K1QCeIXXT q9xaHpcT/XMGTsd/EjaDSW8= =u2Li -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC0E78BE9E892272BDA4E55B6--