Re: Scheduler fairness problem on 2.6 series (Attn: Nick Piggin andothers)

[Peter Williams]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 21:19, spaminos-ker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > --- Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this an SMP machine?  There were problems with that version of the
> > > voluntary preemption patches on SMP.  The latest version, Q3, should fix
> > > these.
> >
> > No, it's a single CPU Athlon 1800+, the kernel is compiled in with support for
> > SMP system, but that should not have any impact.
>
>
> I believe people were also having problems running SMP kernels with the
> VP patches on UP.  Try the latest version. Q3 as of this writing.

Nicolas,
	I'll generate a combined patch and let you know when it's ready.  In 
the mean time, could you try increasing the "base_promotion_interval" to 
about twice the time slice size?

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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