From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268919AbUJKNSb (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:18:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268915AbUJKNSa (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:18:30 -0400 Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.186]:27050 "EHLO mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268919AbUJKNSX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:18:23 -0400 Message-ID: <416A881D.9080100@kolivas.org> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:18:21 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Staircase 8.I cpu scheduler X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The current staircase cpu scheduler is available for 2.6.9-rc4: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4_to_staircase8.I.diff and for 2.6.9-rc4-mm1: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/2.6.9-rc4-mm1_to_staircase8.I.diff Numerous problems from keeping in sync have been resolved, microoptimisations, sanity checks and lots of comments were added, and preempted tasks are now placed at the head of their queue to continue next after preemption. cpu accounting has been yet again revisited and simplified as much as possible after the instability of earlier 8.x versions, bringing back stability. Cheers, Con