kernel 2.6.38 & auto sched

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On 03/18/2011 07:37 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:


  Thanks for your thoughts ..


> 
> I'm running 2.6.38-rc6 on most of my F14 machines (using a rebuilt F15
> SRPMs from koji) and it seems to be working just fine (must like
> previous rcX kernel).

  I am now running the 2.6.38-1.fc15.x86_64 kernel - so far so good. I
didn't bother rebuilding f14 versions.

  I have not yet explored auto sched on this version (tho I used it in
very early versions ... several kinks have been worked out since then so
I suspect it is quite smooth now.)

> 
> Per your question, the changes to scheduler are indeed impressive - E.g.
> I'm typing this on a dual socket Xeon workstation while 2.6.38 SRPM is
> being built in the background (w/ %_smp_flags -j24) and BOINC is eating
> the rest of the CPU time with minimal, if any, impact on the
> interactivity of the system.


  I have not yet explored auto sched on this version (tho I used it in
very early versions ... several kinks have been worked out since then so
I suspect it is quite smooth now.)

  Glad to hear its working well for you!!

> 
> Having said all that, I doubt that F14 will get upgraded to 2.6.37 or
> 2.6.38.

  Shame really ...

  gene/