Re: [PATCH] [sched] redundant reschedule when set_user_nice() boosts a prio of a task from the "expired" array

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 05:24:30 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> so
>
> - your code only gets publically tested in its against-staircase
> version
>
> - the against-mainline version will get merged without having been
> publically tested outside of staircase
>
> which is probably all OK for a 2.6.22-rc1 thing, provided Ingo can
> give a confident ack.

it looks good to me - and once i get a non-whitespace-damaged patch i'll
put it into -rt so we'll have testing. (this patch should have at most a
latency impact, if we forget to preempt somewhere, and -rt users are
quite touchy about latencies.)

> Where are we at with staircase anyway? Is it looking like a 2.6.22
> thing? I don't personally think we've yet seen enough serious
> performance testing to permit a merge, apart from other issues...

yes, that's my thinking too at the moment. I'd also like to see a
summary of 'open design questions' list from Mike (if Mike has
time/energy for that?) - many questions were raised, a good number of
them were answered, various changes done to SD but there's no good
summary of the current state of affairs.

Ingo
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