> Yet another significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the
> staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any
> SMP machine.
>
> Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing more bugs.
>
> As requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch
> adds -sd046 to the kernel version.
>
>
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.46.patch
>
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.7-sd-0.46.patch
>
> Renicing X to -10, while not essential, may be desirable on the desktop.
> Unlike the CFS scheduler which renices X without your intervention to
> nice -19, the SD patches do not alter nice level on their own.
>
> See the patch just posted called 'sched: implement staircase deadline
> scheduler load weight fix' for details of the fixes.
>
> Thanks to all testing and giving feedback.
>
> Well I'm exhausted...
>