From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750913AbVKNFAH (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750915AbVKNFAG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:06 -0500 Received: from omta03ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.82.155]:24486 "EHLO omta03ps.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913AbVKNFAF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:05 -0500 Message-ID: <437819D3.4010104@bigpond.net.au> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:00:03 +1100 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Chris Han , Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III , Jake Moilanen Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.1.4 for 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta03ps.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:00:04 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This version updates the staircase scheduler to Con's version and makes modifications to the interactive bonus mechanisms in spa_ws and zaphod to use interactive sleepiness instead of ordinary sleepiness. A patch for 2.6.15-rc1 is available at: and a patch to upgrade the 6.1.3 version for 2.6.14 to 6.1.4 is available at: Very Brief Documentation: You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot time by adding: cpusched= to the boot command line where is one of: ingosched, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr or zaphod. If you don't change the default when you build the kernel the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the contents of: /proc/scheduler Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in: /sys/cpusched// Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce