Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

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Just thought I'd let you know that CFS is working on the PS3


neutrino boot # dmesg
Using PS3 machine description
Page orders: linear mapping = 24, virtual = 12, io = 12
Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Fri May 18 09:26:38 UTC 2007
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ppc64_pft_size                = 0x14
physicalMemorySize            = 0x8000000
ppc64_caches.dcache_line_size = 0x80
ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0x80
htab_address                  = 0x0000000000000000
htab_hash_mask                = 0x1fff
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Linux version 2.6.22-rc1-cfs-v13 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1
(Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #1 SMP Fri May 18 09:26:38 UTC 2007

It feels more responsive but I shall do more testing and see if there
are any real benefits

On 17/05/07, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:

i'm pleased to announce release -v13 of the CFS scheduler patchset.

The CFS patch against v2.6.22-rc1, v2.6.21.1 or v2.6.20.10 can be
downloaded from the usual place:

     http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/

-v13 is a fixes-only release. It fixes a smaller accounting bug, so if
you saw small lags during desktop use under certain workloads then
please re-check that workload under -v13 too. It also tweaks SMP
load-balancing a bit. (Note: the load-balancing artifact reported by
Peter Williams is not a CFS-specific problem and he reproduced it in
v2.6.21 too. Nevertheless -v13 should be less prone to such artifacts.)

I know about no open CFS regression at the moment, so please re-test
-v13 and if you still see any problem please re-report it. Thanks!

Changes since -v12:

 - small tweak: made the "fork flow" of reniced tasks zero-sum

 - debugging update: /proc/<PID>/sched is now seqfile based and echoing
   0 to it clears the maximum-tracking counters.

 - more debugging counters

 - small rounding fix to make the statistical average of rounding errors
   zero

 - scale both the runtime limit and the granularity on SMP too, and make
   it dependent on HZ

 - misc cleanups

As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more
than welcome,

        Ingo
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