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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 02:47:30 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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martin f krafft wrote:

>also sprach Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> [2004.01.08.1634 +0100]:
>
>>You could try my alternate CPU scheduler which would tell us if your
>>problem is the scheduler or something else. Its against the mm tree.
>>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v29p6.gz
>>
>
>From a quick glance, it mentions the Pentium 4 and Hyperthreading.
>This *is* an SMP system, but it uses Athlon XPs. Will your scheduler
>still work?
>

Yeah, my interactivity stuff has to be applied after my SMP stuff,
so I had to give you both ;)

You'll want to run make oldconfig after patching, and you needn't say
yes to CONFIG_SCHED_SMT, although if you did it wouldn't hurt either,
it just wouldn't do anything.

Nick


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