[ANNOUNCE] linux-4.9-ck1

[Con Kolivas]

These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity 
with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable for any workload. The 
patchset is mainly centred around the Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, 
MuQSS.


-ck1 patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.9-ck1/

Git tree:
https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/4.9-ck

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS packages:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.9-ck1/Ubuntu16.04/


Full patch list:

0001-Multiple-Queue-Skiplist-Scheduler-version-0.15.patch
0002-Make-preemptible-kernel-default.patch
0003-Expose-vmsplit-option-for-our-poor-32bit-users.patch
0004-Implement-min-and-msec-hrtimeout-un-interruptible-sc.patch
0005-Special-case-calls-of-schedule_timeout-1-to-use-the-.patch
0006-Convert-msleep-to-use-hrtimers-when-active.patch
0007-Replace-all-schedule_timeout-1-with-schedule_min_hrt.patch
0008-Change-all-schedule_timeout-with-msecs_to_jiffies-po.patch
0009-Replace-all-calls-to-schedule_timeout_interruptible-.patch
0010-Replace-all-calls-to-schedule_timeout_uninterruptibl.patch
0011-Fix-build-for-disabled-highres-timers-with-hrtimeout.patch
0012-Make-hrtimer-granularity-and-minimum-hrtimeout-confi.patch
0013-Make-threaded-IRQs-optionally-the-default-which-can-.patch
0014-Reinstate-default-Hz-of-100-in-combination-with-MuQS.patch
0015-Don-t-use-hrtimer-overlay-when-pm_freezing-since-som.patch
0016-wb-buf-throttle-v7.patch
0017-4.9-bfq-v8.patch
0018-Make-writeback-throttling-default-enabled.patch
0019-Add-ck1-version.patch


For a brief description of each patch without trawling the git tree, each 
patch can be found as a quilt series here:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.9-ck1/patches/


Hacking blog:
http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/

Simple homepage:
http://kernel.kolivas.org


Enjoy!
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