Re: Scheduler patch recoding ...

From: James A Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 20:34:17 EST


I have the patch attached.

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > having a lot of requests about my scheduler patch which I've coded
> > until 2.2.13 and 2.3.34, I've planned to recode it for 2.2.14 and
> > 2.3.39 this weekend.
>
> Where can we download your current code?
>
> > After this step I need help from all of You that have a good
> > testing console for a high switching rate environment ( IBM
> > Volano, and I hope, many others ).
>
> No you don't. This patch needs to be tested under a
> realistic system load. An overloaded webserver or a
> `make -j' is fine, but an artificial benchmark most
> certainly is not.
>
> > I've not spent enough time to develop my testing suite ( to say
> > the truth it's very simple ), so I need one that can better
> > simulate a __real__ high workload environments. My hope is that
> > with this patch we can hiss pro M$ benchmarks dispatchers.
>
> If benchmarking is the goal of your patch, I'll be
> reading it for entertainment value only. OTOH, if
> your patch is meant to make the scheduler more
> scalable or better, then I'm willing to do something
> more with it...
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
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