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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:06:39 +1100
From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.1.4 for 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1
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Peter Williams wrote:
> 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:
> 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.4-for-2.6.15-rc1.patch?download> 
> 
> 
> and a patch to upgrade the 6.1.3 version for 2.6.14 to 6.1.4 is
> available at:
> 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.3-to-6.1.4-for-2.6.14.patch?download> 
> 
> 
> 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=<scheduler>
> 
> to the boot command line where <scheduler> 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/<scheduler>/
> 
> Peter

Patch for 2.6.15-rc2 is available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.4-for-2.6.15-rc2.patch?download>

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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