Message-ID: <1086656871.40c511673eca5@vds.kolivas.org>
Date: Tue,  8 Jun 2004 11:07:51 +1000
From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zwane@linuxpower.ca, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase Scheduler v6.3 for 2.6.7-rc2
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Quoting Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > At a guess I'd say either a) you're hitting some path in the kernel which
> > is going for a giant and bogus romp through memory, trashing CPU caches or
> > b) your workload really dislikes run-child-first-after-fork or c) the page
> > allocator is serving up pages which your access pattern dislikes or d)
> > something else.
> > 
> 
> e) it's the staircase scheduler patch?
> 

Phy Prabab wrote:
>Could anyone suggest a way to understand why the
>difference between the 2.6 kernels and the 2.4
>kernels

I guess Phy better tell us if it's unique to staircase; and if so there's
clearly a bug unique to it.

Con
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