Re: [git pull request] scheduler updates

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Aug 28 2007 - 10:55:38 EST


On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:32 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from:
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
> > >
> > > no big changes - 5 small fixes and 1 small cleanup:
> >
> > FWIW, I spent a few hours testing these patches with various loads,
> > and all was peachy here. No multimedia or interactivity aberrations
> > noted.
>
> great! Btw., there's another refinement Peter and me are working on (see
> the patch below): to place new tasks into the existing 'scheduling flow'
> in a more seemless way. In practice this should mean less firefox spikes
> during a kbuild workload. If you have some time to try it, could you add
> the patch below to your tree too, and see what happens during fork-happy
> workloads? It does not seem to be overly urgent to apply at the moment,
> but it is a nice touch i think.

Sure, I'll give it a try. (i was just adding likely post 24 merge
candidates to give them some runtime anyway, one more to the queue)

-Mike

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