From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270700AbTG0Jh5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:37:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270701AbTG0Jh4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:37:56 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:52884 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270700AbTG0Jhm (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:37:42 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:57:01 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307271957.01597.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:24, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > [...] I feel that Con and Ingo work is starting to collide. > > they do collide only on the patch level - both change the same code. > Otherwise, most of Con's tunings/changes are still valid with my patches > applied - and i'd more than encourage Con's work to continue! Watching the > tuning work i got the impression that the problem areas are suffering from > a lack of infrastructure, not from a lack of tuning. So i introduced 3 new > items: accurate statistics, on-runqueue boosting and timeslice > granularity. The fact that these items improved certain characteristics > (and fixed a couple of corner cases like test-starve.c) prove that it's a > step in the right direction. It's definitely not the final step. Thanks Ingo. I will continue then and stepwise make use of the extra infrastructure you've made available when I can decide how best to benefit from it. Con