Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.1 for 2.6.12-rc6 and 2.6.12-rc6-mm1

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

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 03:25 pm, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
>>The patch of PlugSched-5.1 for 2.6.12-rc5 applies cleanly to 2.6.12-rc6
>>and is available at:
> 
> 
> Hi Peter
> 
> The recent fix that Ingo posted for the changes to pipe code affects 
> significantly the behaviour of the mainline scheduler and should be 
> incorporated as soon as possible. Staircase has undergone substantial 
> revision in response to this change, fortunately to its advantage removing 
> all that extra code I added to your last plugsched version. Anyway here is a 
> patch committing Ingo's pipe signalling changes, and the update to staircase 
> 11.3 in line with those changes. None of this changes the way the other cpu 
> schedulers behave but it may be worth investigating how the pipe changes 
> affect the behaviour of the ones you maintain.
> 

Thanks.  I've incorporated this patch plus some modifications to the 
Zaphod scheduler to take advantage of the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag into 
v-5.2 of PlugSched for 2.6.11, 2.6.12-rc6 and 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 kernels. 
Patches to upgrade v-5.1 to v-5.2 are available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-5.1-to-5.2-for-2.6.11.patch?download>
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-5.1-to-5.2-for-2.6.12-rc6.patch?download>
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-5.1-to-5.2-for-2.6.12-rc6-mm1.patch?download>

I noticed when doing this conversion that I had botched the propagation 
of your staircase 11.2 patches into the 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 kernel and anyone 
using the staircase scheduler in that kernel is advised to upgrade to 
this patch.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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