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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:35:12 +1000
From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.3.2 for  2.6.17-rc1
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Peter Williams wrote:
> This version updates staircase scheduler to version 15 (thanks Con)
> and includes the latest smpnice patches
> 
> A patch for 2.6.17-rc1 is available at:
> 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.3.2-for-2.6.17-rc1.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,
> ingo_ll, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs
> 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>/

Now available for 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.3.2-for-2.6.17-rc1-mm1.patch?download>

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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