Yet another significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine.
Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing more bugs. As requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch adds -sd046 to the kernel version. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.46.patch http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.46.patch Renicing X to -10, while not essential, may be desirable on the desktop. Unlike the CFS scheduler which renices X without your intervention to nice -19, the SD patches do not alter nice level on their own. See the patch just posted called 'sched: implement staircase deadline scheduler load weight fix' for details of the fixes. Thanks to all testing and giving feedback. Well I'm exhausted... -- -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/