These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable for any workload. The patchset is mainly centred around the Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, MuQSS.
-ck1 patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.10/4.10-ck1/ Git tree: https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/4.10-ck Ubuntu 16.10 packages: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.10/4.10-ck1/Ubuntu16.10/ Patch for those struggling with the nvidia driver and 4.10: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.10/nvidia-375.39-linux-4.10.patch Full patch list: 0001-MuQSS-150-pre-merge.patch 0002-Remove-quick-ramp-up-which-may-have-been-keeping-CPU.patch 0003-Fix-iso-tick-calculation.patch 0004-Prevent-negative-value-causing-further-overflow-in-t.patch 0005-Demote-no-cpumask-message-to-info.patch 0006-Bump-muqss-version-to-0.152.patch 0007-Make-preemptible-kernel-default.patch 0008-Expose-vmsplit-option-for-our-poor-32bit-users.patch 0009-Implement-min-and-msec-hrtimeout-un-interruptible-sc.patch 0010-Special-case-calls-of-schedule_timeout-1-to-use-the-.patch 0011-Convert-msleep-to-use-hrtimers-when-active.patch 0012-Replace-all-schedule-timeout-1-with-schedule_min_hrt.patch 0013-Change-all-schedule_timeout-with-msecs_to_jiffies-po.patch 0014-Replace-all-calls-to-schedule_timeout_interruptible-.patch 0015-Replace-all-calls-to-schedule_timeout_uninterruptibl.patch 0016-Fix-build-for-disabled-highres-timers-with-hrtimeout.patch 0017-Make-hrtimer-granularity-and-minimum-hrtimeout-confi.patch 0018-Make-threaded-IRQs-optionally-the-default-which-can-.patch 0019-Reinstate-default-Hz-of-100-in-combination-with-MuQS.patch 0020-Don-t-use-hrtimer-overlay-when-pm_freezing-since-som.patch 0021-Make-writeback-throttling-default-enabled.patch 0022-Swap-sucks.patch 0023-BFQ-version-8.patch 0024-Make-BFQ-default-IO-scheduler.patch 0025-Add-ck1-version.patch For a brief description of each patch without trawling the git tree, each patch can be found as a quilt series here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.10/4.10-ck1/patches/ Hacking blog: http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/ Simple homepage: http://kernel.kolivas.org Enjoy! お楽しみ下さい -- -ck