Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263561AbTIJN7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:59:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263600AbTIJN7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:59:52 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:43419 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263561AbTIJN7t (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:59:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5F2E28.2030901@austin.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:59:04 -0500 From: Steven Pratt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms References: <3F5D023A.5090405@austin.ibm.com> <20030908155639.2cdc8b56.akpm@osdl.org> <3F5E4EF5.1030005@austin.ibm.com> <20030909151246.6d42656b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030909151246.6d42656b.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2002 Lines: 70 Andrew Morton wrote: >Steven Pratt wrote: > > >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch >>> >>> >>> >>This patch improves specjjb over test5 and has no real effect on any of >>kernbench, volanomark or specsdet. >> >> > >Fine, it's a good fix. > > > >>>and if you have time, also test5 plus sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch plus >>> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch >>> >>> >>> >>This patch degrades both specjbb and volanomark, and to a lesser degree >>specsdet >> >> > >ok. And just confirming: that was test5 plus >sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch plus >sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch? > > No this was test 5 plus sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch only. I seems I misread the request. I am running that job now. >I didn't expect a regression from sched-balance-fix. > > > >>>What I'm afraid of is that those patches will yield improved results over >>>test5, and that adding >>> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test4/2.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A3.patch >>> >>> >>> >>I tried adding this patch to stock test5 and it failed to apply >>cleanly. I have not had a chance to look at why. Did you mean for this >>to be applied by itself, or was this supposed to go on top of one of the >>other patches? >> >> > >Yes, it applies on top of the other two patches. > >Thanks for working on this: it's pretty important right now. > Ok, this is submitted as well. Should have results this afternoon. Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/