From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261557AbUKOJRX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:17:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261559AbUKOJRX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:17:23 -0500 Received: from mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.190]:55730 "EHLO mail09.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261557AbUKOJRT (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:17:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4198740E.7070306@kolivas.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:17:02 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org Subject: Staircase 9.1 for 2.6.10-rc2 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBE267D3095B24BEB676A30B8" 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) --------------enigBE267D3095B24BEB676A30B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've resynced the staircase cpu scheduler v9.1 with linux-2.6.10-rc2. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.10/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2_to_staircase9.1.diff Note that a minute change from version 9.0 to v9.1 caused a massive change in the behaviour of frequently waking tasks that could get stuck at lowest priority for a while in all versions of the staircase scheduler has been fixed. This causes quite large improvements in fairness, latency and behaviour of high performance gaming with more stable and slightly higher fps and better audio behaviour. (note this change is already present in 2.6.9-ck3). Cheers, Con --------------enigBE267D3095B24BEB676A30B8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBmHQSZUg7+tp6mRURAqDvAJ9yZkPIw9F2ncuCE91CI5IQ2tIlaQCffGEK yXbo4L56sDAHiZ3B6SL2Oyw= =fA/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBE267D3095B24BEB676A30B8--