Since there is so much work currently ongoing with alternative cpu schedulers, as a standard for comparison with the alternative virtual deadline fair designs I've addressed a few issues in the Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler which improve behaviour likely in a noticeable fashion and released version 0.41.
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.41.patch http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.41.patch and an incremental for those on 0.40: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7/sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-further-improvements.patch Remember to renice X to -10 for nicest desktop behaviour :) Have fun. -- -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/
