On 14/06/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'm pleased to announce release -v17 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The rolled-up CFS patch against v2.6.22-rc4, v2.6.22-rc4-mm2, v2.6.21.5 or v2.6.20.13 can be downloaded from the usual place: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/ -v17 includes a bigger change: the CFS-core changes in preparation of the group-scheduling feature, written Srivatsa Vaddagiri. Dmitry Adamushko provided cleanups and further generalizations to this code and the modularization of CFS has been further enhanced as a result. To users, these changes are mostly invisible. Changes since -v16: - lots of core updates to support group scheduling, and related cleanups. (Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Dmitry Adamushko) - tuned the runtime-limit up a bit, based on relentless testing done by Tobias Gerschner. - the new, precise load-calculation method for SMP balancing has been further enhanced, and is now active by default. (Dmitry Adamushko) - fix SCHED_IDLEPRIO support (based on feedback from Thomas Sattler) - further updates to /proc/sched_debug and /proc/PID/sched - more cleanups As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more than welcome! Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Hi everyone, I'm just writing to say how impressed I am with the new CFS scheduler. I've been following it's development from the first patch, right up to now (running on the latest vanilla kernel I could!) and I can honestly say I've never had such a responsive experience. I'm currently writing a major patch to the ext2 file-system driver, as part of a University project - it involves a lot of kernel rebuilds as I'm testing the patch in UML. I've had a couple of kernel compiles happening simultaneously (on my moderate single CPU PC), and tried out a few make -j12's, and I'm amazed at the difference the new scheduler makes. I've got quite a few instances of Firefox (whoops, Iceweasel) open, I'm listening to music and theres a few other apps running (like KNode the newsreader) and the interactivity response has been excellent. In conclusion, well done to the scheduler people and I look forward to seeing this go to mainline. (If there's anything I can do to help, I'd love to throw a few patches at the mailing list ;) -- Regards, Tom Spink University of Edinburgh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/