From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753121AbXCMFDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:03:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753126AbXCMFDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:03:05 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:54264 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753121AbXCMFDC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:03:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LAKcm6ygsPnKgvZ14diT+MJQVHcF129ik5+Ige5NMzvKOaxCfjZRTwelqTQHHFf+iGVa+/NbeXuDOVRK86Ypz/NdvHXIYeboiq5tt6mcomzhAWvptO4ysrFqrVeYP1PpqjNY6U4iu2n3anx8CJHbcMMHChSbRQCl3xnNztdOPak= Message-ID: <6f6293f10703122203i7f11f355j69f6b2e2e830051f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:03:00 -0400 From: "Felipe Alfaro Solana" To: "Willy Tarreau" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels Cc: "Con Kolivas" , ck@vds.kolivas.org, "David Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070313043206.GN943@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703121058.11966.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070312.164652.108743760.davem@davemloft.net> <200703131405.23482.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070313043206.GN943@1wt.eu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Con Kolivas > > > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100 > > > > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-sched-rsdl-0. > > > >30.patch > > > > > > FWIW, this boots and seems to work well on sparc64. Tested > > > on UP SunBlade1500 and 24cpu Niagara T1000. > > > > Very nice. Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry you have to work with such > > lousy hardware. > > BTW, I don't know if you say this as a joke, but those are not necessarily > lousy hardware. Sun does lousy hardware when they put Sparcs in PCs (ultra5, > ultra10, blade100). But their servers generally are nice with large memory > busses and very scalable SMP architectures. I guess Con was kidding. A 24-CPU system can be anything but lousy hardware.