These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace.
Apply to 2.6.11: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck4/patch-2.6.11-ck4.bz2 http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck4/patch-2.6.11-ck4-server.bz2 web: http://kernel.kolivas.org all patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/ Split patches available. Changes since 2.6.11-ck2 (last public announcement): Changed: ~schediso2.12.diff Small policy fix to ensure real time tasks without privileges get dropped to SCHED_ISO Added: +cfq-ts21-fix1.diff +cfq-ts21-fix2.diff Two small cfq bugfixes +s10.6_s10.7.diff Micro-optimisations for staircase cpu scheduler +patch-2.6.11.7 Latest stable version +2611ck4-version.diff Version Removed: -nvidia_6111-6629_compat2.diff Nvidia compatibility no longer required with new nvidia driver -patch-2.6.11.1 -patch-2.6.11.2 -2611ck2-version.diff obvious Full patchlist: 2.6.11_to_staircase10.5.diff s10.5_s10.6.diff s10.6_s10.7.diff Latest version of the staircase O(1) single priority array foreground-background cpu scheduler schedrange.diff Eases addition of scheduling policies schedbatch2.7.diff Idle cpu scheduling schediso2.12.diff Unprivileged low latency cpu scheduling mapped_watermark3.diff Lighter memory scanning under light loads and far less swapping 1g_lowmem1_i386.diff Support 1GB of memory without enabling HIGHMEM cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch Support normal user burning of cds cfq-ts-21.diff cfq-ts21-fix.diff cfq-ts21-fix1.diff cfq-ts21-fix2.diff Complete fair queueing timeslice i/o scheduler v21 defaultcfq.diff Enable the cfq I/O scheduler by default (-ck) default_deadline.diff Enable the deadline I/O scheduler by default (-server) isobatch_ionice2.diff Support for i/o priorities suitable for SCHED_ISO and SCHED_BATCH tasks rt_ionice.diff Support for i/o priority suitable for real time tasks patch-2.6.11.7 The latest stable tree. 2611ck4-version.diff Version and available separately in the patches/ dir as an addon: supermount-ng208-2611.diff Simplest way to automount removable media And don't forget to pour one of these before booting this kernel: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/cognac.JPG Cheers, Con
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