From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler policies for staircase
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:33:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41125339.6080002@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1831126609.20040805163204@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
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Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>>>>Con,
>>>>
>>>>I have been using SCHED_BATCH on two machines now with expected
>>>>results. So this you might consider this as another success report :-)
>>>
>>>Great. Thanks for the report. I too use them all day every day on each
>>>machine I have with distributed computing clients so they're pretty well
>>>tested.
>
> I forgot to mention about something.
>
> I totally deadlocked my machine just after setting the
> /proc/sys/kernel/compute to 1 with
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/computer
>
>
> The machine is 2x1G p3, and the kernel was SMP and I had experimentally
> seti@home running in SCHED_BATCH mode in screen.
>
> It was 2.6.8-rc1 with ck patches from:
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.8-rc1/
>
> I used these patches on 2.6.8-rc1 from it (of course in the proper
> order:
> __cleanup_transaction-latency-fix.patch
> crq-fixes.diff
> defaultcfq.diff
> filemap_sync-latency-fix.patch
> from_2.6.8-rc1_to_staircase7.A
Sorry, those were snapshot patches and not "release" patches. That bug
was known and fixed in staircase 7.E which was released with 2.6.7-ck6;
2.6.8-rc2-mm2 did not have that bug either.
Cheers,
Con
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-05 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 5:43 [PATCH][0/3] Scheduler policies for staircase Maciej Soltysiak
2004-08-04 6:45 ` Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 22:07 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-08-05 14:32 ` Re[2]: " Maciej Soltysiak
2004-08-05 15:33 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
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2004-08-04 0:40 [PATCH][0/3] " Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 11:03 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-04 11:12 ` Con Kolivas
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