Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
>
> o O(1) scheduler starvation, poor behaviour seems unresolved.
>
> Jens: "I've been running 2.5.67-mm3 on my workstation for two days, and
> it still doesn't feel as good as 2.4. It's not a disaster like some
> revisisons ago, but it still has occasional CPU "stalls" where it feels
> like a process waits for half a second of so for CPU time. That's is very
> noticable."
>
> Also see Mike Galbraith's work.
>
> Conclusion: the scheduler has issues, lots of people working on it. Rick
> Lindsley, Andrew Theurer.
Actually this part should have been deleted.
There have been a lot of sporadic CPU scheduler problem reports and a lot
of fixes, some in just the past day or two.
So apart from David MT's discoveries we shall be wiping the slate clean and
awaiting new reports.
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