Re: [PATCH] Staircase Scheduler v6.3 for 2.6.7-rc2

[Con Kolivas]

Quoting Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > At a guess I'd say either a) you're hitting some path in the kernel which
> > is going for a giant and bogus romp through memory, trashing CPU caches or
> > b) your workload really dislikes run-child-first-after-fork or c) the page
> > allocator is serving up pages which your access pattern dislikes or d)
> > something else.
> > 
> 
> e) it's the staircase scheduler patch?
> 

Phy Prabab wrote:
>Could anyone suggest a way to understand why the
>difference between the 2.6 kernels and the 2.4
>kernels

I guess Phy better tell us if it's unique to staircase; and if so there's
clearly a bug unique to it.

Con
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