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PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

From:  Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
To:  Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject:  [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22
Date:  Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:44:25 +1000
Cc:  Chris Han <xiphux@gmail.com>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>, Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(.

A patch for 2.6.22 is available at:

<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.5.1-fo...>

Very Brief Documentation:

You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time.  If you wish to
boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot
time by adding:

cpusched=<scheduler>

to the boot command line where <scheduler> is one of: ingosched,
ingo_ll, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs
or zaphod.  If you don't change the default when you build the kernel
the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler).

The scheduler in force on a running system can be determined by the
contents of:

/proc/scheduler

Control parameters for the scheduler can be read/set via files in:

/sys/cpusched/<scheduler>/

Peter
-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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