What follows is a patch series for the updated version of the Rotating Staircase DeadLine cpu scheduler.
The dropping of one patch in the series and modest rewrite of certain components means a fresh patch series is most appropriate, apologies for any inconvenience. Changes - Implemented the dithered priority slot bitmap which makes latencies between differential nice levels much smaller, allowing X to be run nice -n -10 for example. - Dropped back to 140 bit bitmap. The expired bitmap became a necessity with the more complex priority matrix. - Removed the static priority accounting. It wasn't being used for anything. - Simplified the preempt check to correspond with the changed priority system. - Made the rr interval slightly larger at 8ms, and to scale gently with rise in number of cpus. At 8ms it will round up to 10ms on 250HZ, whereas selecting 1000HZ by the user implies latency is more relevant and they will get the 8ms. The larger rr interval should decrease context switches and cache trashing. It would be quite easy to simply make this a meaningful tunable in /proc. - Fixed a bug that was resetting priority in normal_prio() on wakeup - Fixed a problem whereby new quota was not being set on reniced tasks until they had slept. - Updated the documentation to match changed design. - Lots of painkillers and rest -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
