Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756608AbXJPALW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:11:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754030AbXJPALP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:11:15 -0400 Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:38802 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752973AbXJPALO (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:11:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=PF8YwUCVfICH/DPbLrNCVtR6Ea2RmLGlDFaywwEldq2i6+WWXPLyxU/s15Qj0kUYVR1A9Gkpfe0M31SMQ0kpVyxi9vfrbXQJktZBT0dn1emDJzkQAjUIKnKSLW7dYVFNWAc1nndxsNYqZST4iMugF0idpiHmxT3rjCK9OBeUyJ0= ; X-YMail-OSG: FX0WlMkVM1k_ltU7wbCCr1SydxezlNsBNf.XaeQSEezskAJzwh5Pd9ifNEAmz2Ef5actwvrPxIqrwlXZoEQ0CaZ67O3Exr01MNy5KoNw7_obLo4IROoRkv94cMiQcQ-- From: Nick Piggin To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler updates for v2.6.24 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:38:47 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <20071015141723.GA29486@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071015141723.GA29486@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710161238.47432.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 27 On Tuesday 16 October 2007 00:17, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git > > It contains lots of scheduler updates from lots of people - hopefully > the last big one for quite some time. Most of the focus was on > performance (both micro-performance and scalability/balancing), but > there's the fair-scheduling feature now Kconfig selectable too. Find the > shortlog below. Nice work... However it's a pity all the balancing stuff got wildly changed in 2.6.23 and then somewhat changed back again now. Despite appearances, a lot of those things weren't actually *completely* arbitrary values. I fear that it will make finding performance regressions harder than it should have... Anyway. - 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/