Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:39:01 +1200 | From | "mdew ." <> | Subject | Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4 |
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Any chance of supporting 2.6.20?
On 4/21/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch > against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ > > this CFS release too is mainly about fixing regressions and improving > interactivity, so the rate of change is relatively low: > > 11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) > > in particular the preemption fix could resolve the 'desktop slows down > under IO load' reports and the 'firefox does not switch tabs fast > enough' reports as well. The suspend2 crash and the yield related > Kaffeine hangs should be resolved as well. > > Changes since -v3: > > - usability fix: automatic renicing of kernel threads such as keventd, > OOM tasks and tasks doing privileged hardware access (such as Xorg). > (This is a substitute for group scheduling until the group scheduling > details have been worked out.) > > - bugfix: buggy yield() caused suspend2 problems > > - preemption fix: it caused desktop app latencies > > 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 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/ > - 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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