2.6.7-ck4, Staircase7.8- June 30, 2004 After extensive testing by all the helpful people out there I've released a new version of the staircase scheduler patch. Version 7.7 was nice and stable but probably underperformed about 4 minor versions before it. The stability was necessary, though, because a whole swag of little annoying starvation issues made it into 7.4. This version adds a few more planned features, and has improved the performance substantially, and improved the fairness of the non-interactive and computational...http://kerneltrap.org/node/3375 Staircase Scheduler v6.2- June 6, 2004 Good to be back and hacking away in earnest. After resyncing with the current kernel I spent a lot of time thinking about the staircase scheduler. I've managed to resolve the remaining corner cases and believe I have a good working design now that seems stable, fair and has good interactivity and responsiveness. Staircase v6.2 for linux-2.6.7-rc2 read morehttp://kerneltrap.org/node/3247 |