Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:31:09 +1000 | From | Peter Williams <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler fairness problem on 2.6 series (Attn: Nick Piggin and others) |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 21:19, spaminos-ker@yahoo.com wrote: > >>--- Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: >> >>>Is this an SMP machine? There were problems with that version of the >>>voluntary preemption patches on SMP. The latest version, Q3, should fix >>>these. >>> >> >>No, it's a single CPU Athlon 1800+, the kernel is compiled in with support for >>SMP system, but that should not have any impact. >> > > > I believe people were also having problems running SMP kernels with the > VP patches on UP. Try the latest version. Q3 as of this writing.
Nicolas, I'll generate a combined patch and let you know when it's ready. In the mean time, could you try increasing the "base_promotion_interval" to about twice the time slice size?
Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au
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