Hi With the O(1) scheduler has the persistent starvation problem been addressed? Looks like it still exists in the Fedora beta2 Reference: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/kernel/o1-starve.php Thanks, Ernesto On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:25, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:03:36AM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > Is Fedora Core going to do the same thing with the kernel (massively patch, > > add in functionality, etc) or is it going to go with the stock kernels from > > kernel.org? > > For the 2.4 kernel, its not going to diverge any more than it has > already. This means we have some of the extra features folks asked > like exec-shield, nptl, O(1) scheduler etc. Most of the changes that > are going in right now, are either backports of fixes from 2.4.23pre, > or fixes for the already merged patches, and occasionally, fixes for > something random (which is getting pushed back upstream asap) (typically > these come from bugzilla reports). > > For the 2.6 kernel when we get to FC2, we're hoping to get things a lot > closer to mainline, and hopefully keep it that way. Already we have 1-2 > things there (Exec-shield springs to mind), but with any luck, we can > push a lot of the smaller stuff upstream, and with O(1), nptl etc > already being merged there, that's a whole bunch of patches we don't > have to worry about. > > Dave -- Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto@xxxxxxxx>
