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Peter Williams wrote: > This version contains minor code cleanups and more modifications to the > spa_ws scheduler to improve its interactive responsiveness. This > modification includes control parameters for the identification of > "media streaming" tasks. The default values for these parameters are > set based on observations of RealPlayer and the parameters of the video > and audio benchmarks in Con Kolivas's interbench test and, therefore, > may need adjusting for other programs. > > A patch for 2.6.13-mm2 is available at: > > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.13-mm2.patch?download> > > > and a patch to upgrade the 6.1 for 2.6.13 to 6.1.1 is available at: > > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1-to-6.1.1-for-2.6.13.patch?download> > > > Very Brief Documentation: > > You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to > boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot > time by adding: > > cpusched=<scheduler> > > to the boot command line where <scheduler> is one of: ingosched, > nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws or zaphod. If you don't > change the default when you build the kernel the default scheduler will > be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). > > The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the > contents of: > > /proc/scheduler > > Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in: > > /sys/cpusched/<scheduler>/ > > Peter Patches for 2.6.14-rc2 and 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 are available at: <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.14-rc2.patch?download> and <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.14-rc2-mm1.patch?download> Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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