Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Sun Mar 04 2007 - 07:46:29 EST


On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >> >This message is to announce the first general public release of the
> >> > "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler.
> >>
> >> I assume to test this, we select the deadline scheduler?
> >
> >No, only the "deadline" in the name is shared. This is a cpu process
> > scheduler whereas the deadline scheduler you're thinking of is an I/O
> > scheduler. To test this you just patch it in and it replaces the
> > current mainline cpu scheduler (the same way the staircase cpu
> > scheduler in -ck replaces it).
>
> Oh, then I tried to put the -ck1 patch on top of that, and blew the tree
> up. I'd built it the first time with the deadline scheduler as the
> default while I was waiting on your reply.

Yes, sorry. This is mutually exclusive with the -ck1 patch. It is a standalone
piece of code.

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