Re: Announce - Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler v0.42

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 23:22:29 EST


On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:12:14PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:41, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:59, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu
> > > schedulers, as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual
> > > deadline fair designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase
> > > Deadline cpu scheduler which improve behaviour likely in a noticeable
> > > fashion and released version 0.41.
> > >
> > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.41.patch
> > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.41.patch
> > >
> > > and an incremental for those on 0.40:
> > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/sched-impleme
> > >nt -staircase-deadline-scheduler-further-improvements.patch
> > >
> > > Remember to renice X to -10 for nicest desktop behaviour :)
> > >
> > > Have fun.
> >
> > Oops forgot to cc a few people
> >
> > Nick you said I should still have something to offer so here it is.
> > Peter you said you never saw this design (it's a dual array affair sorry).
> > Gene and Willy you were some of the early testers that noticed the
> > advantages of the earlier designs,
> > Matt you did lots of great earlier testing.
> > WLI you inspired a lot of design ideas.
> > Mike you were the stick.
> > And a few others I've forgotten to mention and include.
>
> Version 0.42
>
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.42.patch

OK, I run some tests later today...
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