Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

[Thomas Davis]

Jurriaan wrote:
> From: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:07:39PM +1000
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/
> > >
> > > - nicksched is still here.  There has been very little feedback, except 
> > > that
> > > it seems to slow some workloads on NUMA.
> >
> > The only feedback on nickshed was that it hurt NUMA 
> > somewhat, SMT interactivity was broken (an easy enough oversight)
>
>
> I take it that was why changing consoles between mutt and slrn would
> include a pause of several seconds on a system with a single,
> hyperthreaded cpu?

More than likely.  I had found it's worse with X running (see ioperm vs. iopl thread)

> Is that fixed in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1?

Good question, and how about the ioperm/iopl bit map problem?
thomas
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