These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity.
It is configurable to any workload but the default ck patch is aimed at the
desktop and cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace.
Apply to 2.6.14
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.14/2.6.14-ck3/patch-2.6.14-ck3.bz2
or server version
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/cks/patch-2.6.14-cks3.bz2
web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/
Split patches available.
No new features in this one, new version is just to address problematic
behaviour due to adaptive readahead.
Changes:
Removed:
-adaptive-readahead-6.patch
Caused I/O related latencies and lag; needs more work
-set_workqueue_nice-1.patch
-dm-drop_kcryptd_prio.patch
Broken, did nothing
Modified:
-2614ck2-version.diff
+2614ck3-version.diff
Version
Full patchlist:
2.6.14_to_staircase12.1.diff
schedrange.diff
schedbatch2.9.diff
sched-iso3.2.patch
smp-nice-support7.diff
1g_lowmem1_i386.diff
defaultcfq.diff
isobatch_ionice2.diff
rt_ionice.diff
pdflush-tweaks.patch
hz-default_values.patch
hz-no250.patch
mm-swap_prefetch-18.patch
vm-mapped.diff
vm-lots_watermark.diff
vm-background_scan-1.diff
sched-staircase12.1_12.2.patch
mm-kswapd_inherit_prio.patch
mm-prio_dependant_scan.patch
mm-batch_prio.patch
2614ck3-version.diff
also available in patches dir:
hz-extra_values.patch
adds values 82 and 864 for good timer accuracy but not included by default
since some drivers break in weird and wonderful ways at these HZ values
(they're not supposed to but that's another story)
Cheers,
Con