Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.1.0-ck1

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Fri Nov 04 2011 - 18:38:21 EST


On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:50:15 Belisko Marek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Juergen Beisert <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Con Kolivas wrote:
> >> These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and
> >> interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but suitable to
> >> any
> >> commodity hardware workload.
> >>
> >> As it may take some time to get a kernel.org account, I have started
> >> hosting these patches exclusively on my site for now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Apply to 3.1.x:
> >> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/3.0/3.1/3.1.0-ck1/patch-3.1.0-ck1.bz2
> >
> > Tried here with Mini2440 (=ARM arch) to compile:
> Seems in kernel/sched_bfs.c is missing #include <linux/prefetch.h>
> With that fix it compiles fine. Problem is that prefetch is defined in
> ARM headers only for version > v5 (mini is v4).

Thanks for that. The prefetch is only of questionable advantage so it can be
removed entirely. The following patch should fix it:

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/3.0/3.1/3.1.0-ck1/bfs414-noprefetch.patch

Regards,
Con

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