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Peter Williams wrote: > Peter Williams wrote: > >> This version features a major gutting of the SPA based schedulers to >> reduce overhead. The inclusion of the mechanisms for gathering and >> displaying accrued scheduling statistics have been made a compile time >> configurable option (default is exclusion) as they are not an integral >> part of the scheduler and were mainly there to help with tuning. In a >> future version they will be removed completely. >> >> Additionally, the mechanism for auto detection and preferential >> treatment of media streamers in the spa_ws scheduler has been made a >> compile time option (default is exclusion). The reason for this is >> that my testing shows that the performance of media streamers on >> spa_ws is adequate without it. This will also be removed in a future >> version unless requested otherwise. >> >> A patch for 2.6.15-rc5 is available at: >> >> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.6-for-2.6.15-rc5.patch?download> > > > > Applies cleanly to 2.6.15-rc7 so no new patch will be posted. And the 2.6.15 official release. > >> >> >> and a patch for 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 is available at: >> >> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.6-for-2.6.15-rc5-mm2.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, spa_svr 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 > > > -- 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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