Re: 2.6.7-ck1

[Con Kolivas]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:28, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:22 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> > > Patchset update. The focus of this patchset is on system responsiveness
> > > with emphasis on desktops, but the scope of scheduler changes now makes
> > > this patch suitable to servers as well.
> >
> > I've found some interaction problems between, what I think it's, the
> > staircase scheduler and swsusp. With vanilla 2.6.7, swsusp is able to
> > save ~9000 pages to disk in less than 5 seconds, where as 2.6.7-ck1
> > takes more than 1 minute to save the same amount of pages when
> > suspending to disk.
>
>
> If you're using -ck1 it may even be the autoswappiness. Try disabling that and 
> setting a static value for swappiness. If it still exhibits the problem then 
> it's probably a bug somewhere in staircase. While the overall design is 
> finished (it doesn't really lend itself to tuning), surely there are bugs I 
> haven't sorted out even though there are no serious bugs or stability issues 
> that have come up. I'm auditing the code as we speak.

You might want to try the attached patch which addresses an issue with 
kernel threads that is going into staircase 7.1

Con
--- linux-2.6.7-ck2pre/kernel/sched.c	2004-06-19 15:12:15.280924354 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-ck1/kernel/sched.c	2004-06-19 14:58:08.000000000 +1000
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ static int effective_prio(task_t *p)
 
 	if (used_slice < first_slice)
 		return prio;
-	if (p->mm)
-		prio += 1 + (used_slice - first_slice) / rr;
+	prio += 1 + (used_slice - first_slice) / rr;
 	if (prio > MAX_PRIO - 2)
 		prio = MAX_PRIO - 2;
 	return prio;