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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:12:53 +1100
From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.1.5 for 2.6.14, 2.6.15-rc2 and 2.6.15-rc2-mm1
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This version has a modified (hopefully improved) configuration mechanism.

A patch for 2.6.15-rc2-mm1 is available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.5-for-2.6.15-rc2-mm1.patch?download>

and a patch to upgrade the 6.1.4 versions for 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc2 to 
6.1.5 is available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.4-to-6.1.5-for-2.6.15-rc2.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
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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