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FromCon Kolivas <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45
DateSun, 22 Apr 2007 17:27:43 +1000
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > A significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase
> > deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP
> > machine.> >> > Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing likely fault point.
> >> > Also requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch
> > adds -sd045 to the kernel version.>> Con, I'm sorry, but it is worse with this one :-(

Well that was quick testing, thanks.
>> The lag when typing in xterms is even more noticeable and vmstat output
> oscillates between 8 and 65, with idle rates around 50%, as you can see
> below :

> Renicing X or not does not change anything here.>> I suspect that the bug you fixed was hiding another one :-/
> If you want me to test another patch, feel free to ask.

Thanks. Clearly still a bug in there. I have to keep looking. The other 
changes are still valid so I have to run with them.

> Willy

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