Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.3 for 2.6.7
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Panagiotis Papadakos <papadako@csd.uoc.gr>,
       Pauli Virtanen <pauli.virtanen@hut.fi>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:26:34 +0200
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On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 01:30 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> This is a complete scheduler policy rewrite designed to be intrinsically 
> interactive yet very simple and scalable. See previous announcements for 
> more details.
> 
> This version addresses a few minor bugs that are somewhat difficult to 
> stumble upon but can cause problems. Thanks to the many people who 
> reported their experiences so far, and especially to Pauli Virtanen for 
> extensive testing of a nasty bug and feedback along the way.
> 
> This version improves the gameplay on some games that seem to depend on 
> yield() for locking in places (eg Unreal Tournament), as well as 
> removing an "exploit".

No problems so far :-)
Nice work!

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