On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 08:33, Rob Landley wrote:
> 1) The 2.4.18-pre8 patch is from February 7th. Is that really the latest one
> for straight 2.4? If nobody's found even a typo in the thing for almost five
> months, can we expect it in 2.4.20-pre1?
That is the latest patch Ingo has. I have been generating 2.4 patches
now and the latest (for 2.4.19-rc1) is at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/sched/ingo-O1/sched-O1-rml-2.4.19-rc1-1.patch
People have found bugs and there is still active development. The last
patch being against 2.4.18-pre8 should not mean otherwise. Neither Ingo
nor I plan to pursue the O(1) scheduler in 2.4, especially not starting
with 2.4.20-pre.
Enjoy it in 2.5 or get 2.4-ac or the above patch.
> 2) Do the -ac patches bring the 2.4-mt O(1) up to the level that's in the -ac
> tree, or are they against the -ac tree itself? I'd happily run the -ac tree
> except it doesn't HAVE stable releases, it has "it compiled" releases which
> do tend to be fairly stable but don't have nice clustering points where
> enough people are running that particular variant that they can tell you what
> the inevitable bugs actually are...
I do not know if I agree with your view of 2.4-ac, but nonetheless I
have kept the scheduler in there fairly up-to-date. The patches above
of Ingo's will bring 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 up-to-date with the very latest
code.
> 3) Is any of the stuff in ingo's directory actually the latest version? I
> know he wrote it, but I've watched about five other people patch it (Robert
> Love, etc.), and I didn't keep close track at the time but I'm fairly certain
> it was more recent than February.
The 2.4-ac stuff is recent, obviously the 2.4.18-pre8 thing is a bit out
of date.
Ingo is still active in development, he just does not have the latest
2.4 stock patch. See mine above.
> 4) What's with the version numbers? I don't THINK the "B3" patch backlevels
> K3 in a more recent -ac version, especially since "B3" is dated july and "K3"
> is dated february... I seem to have missed a curve somewhere...
>
> 5) Huh?
Eh?
Robert Love
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