From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266512AbUHBNIm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266523AbUHBNIm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:42 -0400 Received: from mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.161]:33966 "EHLO mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266512AbUHBNIk (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:40 -0400 Message-ID: <410E3CAF.6080305@kolivas.org> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:07:59 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 References: <20040802015527.49088944.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040802015527.49088944.akpm@osdl.org> 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="------------enig7638F16970A57304FCCC5490" 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) --------------enig7638F16970A57304FCCC5490 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8-rc2/2.6.8-rc2-mm2/ > - Added Con's staircase CPU scheduler. > > This will probably have to come out again because various people are still > fiddling with the CPU scheduler. But my feeling here is that the current > 1st-gen CPU scheduler has been tweaked as far as it can go and is still not > 100% right. It is time to start thinking about a new design which addresses > the requirements and current problems by algorithmic means rather than by > tweaking. Removing over 300 lines from the scheduler is a good sign. > > Feedback on this patch is sought. Anyone with feedback on this please cc me. This was developed separately from the -mm series which has heaps of other scheduler patches which were not trivial to merge with so there may be teething problems. Good reports dont hurt either ;) Cheers, Con --------------enig7638F16970A57304FCCC5490 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 iD8DBQFBDjyyZUg7+tp6mRURAkfzAJ4wz8GXwrP0B0myQQkDM+TtHAQv3gCdFHeP XS/vSwMWlZnBCEE6Gr5T4mU= =J4HI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7638F16970A57304FCCC5490--