From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275309AbTHSCe1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:34:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275310AbTHSCe1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:34:27 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:13802 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275309AbTHSCe0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:34:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:35:36 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] new scheduler policy Message-ID: <20030819023536.GZ32488@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel References: <3F4182FD.3040900@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F4182FD.3040900@cyberone.com.au> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:53:01AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > As per the latest trend these days, I've done some tinkering with > the cpu scheduler. I have gone in the opposite direction of most > of the recent stuff and come out with something that can be nearly > as good interactivity wise (for me). > I haven't run many tests on it - my mind blanked when I tried to > remember the scores of scheduler "exploits" thrown around. So if > anyone would like to suggest some, or better still, run some, > please do so. And be nice, this isn't my type of scheduler :P > It still does have a few things that need fixing but I thought > I'd get my first hack a bit of exercise. > Its against 2.6.0-test3-mm1 Say, any chance you could spray out a brief explanation of your new heuristics? -- wli