On Saturday 10 March 2007 18:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > What follows this email is a series of patches for the RSDL cpu scheduler > as found in 2.6.21-rc3-mm1. This series is for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 and has some > bugfixes for the issues found so far. While it is not clear that I've > attended to all the bugs, it is worth noting that a complete rewrite is a > teensy bit more than a trivial change shall we say ;) > > akpm it still has trouble on that monster config of yours but there's so > much else going on in this -mm I don't know what to make of it. getting ppc > to work on qemu was more work than I thought and I haven't succeeded there > yet either :| > > A rolled up patch can be found here: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2-rsdl.patch > > Patch series here: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2/ > > and the patch series will follow. If time permits I will make available a > newer version for the older kernels soon. > > Changelog: > - Made it possible for the idle task to schedule on cpu_hotplug. > - Fixed the accounting across fork() > - Recalculation of priority for tasks that have already run this major > rotation and are now on the expired array was wrong. It has been corrected. > - The bitmap error that has been hit on some architectures was made more > verbose to make it clear that something has gone wrong, and will keep going > off if the problem persists.
Oh and if it wasn't clear from this message. It still needs work to be bug free and probably shouldn't be part of -mm till I've ironed out all the oopsen. Thanks. -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/