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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:05:53 +1000
From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.1.1 for 2.6.13 and 2.6.13-mm2
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Peter Williams wrote:
> This version contains minor code cleanups and more modifications to the 
> spa_ws scheduler to improve its interactive responsiveness.  This 
> modification includes control parameters for the identification of 
> "media streaming" tasks.  The default values for these parameters are 
> set based on observations of RealPlayer and the parameters of the video 
> and audio benchmarks in Con Kolivas's interbench test and, therefore, 
> may need adjusting for other programs.
> 
> A patch for 2.6.13-mm2 is available at:
> 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.13-mm2.patch?download> 
> 
> 
> and a patch to upgrade the 6.1 for 2.6.13 to 6.1.1 is available at:
> 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1-to-6.1.1-for-2.6.13.patch?download> 
> 
> 
> Very Brief Documentation:
> 
> You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time.  If you wish to
> boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot
> time by adding:
> 
> cpusched=<scheduler>
> 
> to the boot command line where <scheduler> is one of: ingosched,
> nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws or zaphod.  If you don't
> change the default when you build the kernel the default scheduler will
> be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler).
> 
> The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the
> contents of:
> 
> /proc/scheduler
> 
> Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in:
> 
> /sys/cpusched/<scheduler>/
> 
> Peter

Patches for 2.6.14-rc2 and 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 are available at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.14-rc2.patch?download>

and

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.1.1-for-2.6.14-rc2-mm1.patch?download>

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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