On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:43 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > As I understand, the new kernel has a new scheduler (CFS). Haven't > seen much benchmarks but the early ones I have seen showed some fairly > decent performance gains.
CFS was in 2.6.23 already and actually has some issues in 2.6.24, see http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-January/050818.html . Probably the most significant addition for powerpc in 2.6.24 is CONFIG_NO_HZ support, which may help reduce CPU power consumption when the system is mostly idle. > And finally, there should be no risks in compiling a new kernel right? > If I am not mistaken, I can choose (at start-up) which one to boot > from. Sure. > Actually one more thing, any benefits to doing this? Besides the geek > satisfaction that all of us get from compiling a new kernel. I think self-compiling kernels is generally overrated. I'd suggest trying pre-packaged kernels from sid first. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
