Re: [PATCH] Plugsched for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> While mainline seems uninterested in pluggable cpu schedulers, it seems 
> the demand and response off-list has been rather large so I'll continue 
> to develop it.
> 
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/plugsched/2.6.10-rc1-mm3/
> 
> has a patch tarball and a rolled up patch for applying the current 
> plugsched infrastructure.
> 
> 
> Changes:
> Rolled up the bugfixes into their respective parent patches.
> Added an optional private set_task_cpu.
> Privatised get_idle for kgdb.
> Privatised normalise rt sysrq.
> Updated staircase cpu scheduler.
> 
> 
> Planned:
> More shared code between schedulers.
> Sysfs tunables.
> 
> 
> Note that mm3 has some vm bugs leading to compile problems and 
> instability that you'd need to add on if you wish to try these patches.

A port of the Zaphod scheduler as a plugsched module for the 0411071616 
version of plugsched for the 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 kernel is available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/2.6.10-rc1-mm3-plugsched-0411071616-zaphod-v0.1.diff?download>

Peter
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