Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree for v2.6.25 from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
it contains various enhancements to the scheduler - find the full
shortlog is below. 96 commits from 19 authors - scheduler developers
have been busy again. :-/
The scheduling behavior of the kernel to normal users should not change
over v2.6.24, but there are a good number of new features and
enhancements under the hood:
- various instrumentation and debugging enhancements from
Arjan van de Ven. LatencyTOP support in the scheduler is one
example.
- Peter Zijlstra's RT time limit and RT throttling code for the RT
scheduling class. Both audio and RT folks have asked for this.
- Paul E. McKenney's preemptible RCU code.
- refcount based CPU-hotplug rework by Gautham R Shenoy. (The "Lukewarm
IQ detected in hotplug locking" printout is now gone, forever i hope! :)
- there's serious interest in running RT tasks on enterprise-class
hardware, so Steven Rostedt and Gregory Haskins wrote a large number
of enhancements to the RT scheduling class and load-balancer.
- Peter Zijlstra's high-resolution scheduler tick code. We still have a
HZ tick running for a few other odd things, but it's dwindling now.
- Srivatsa Vaddagiri's next version of group scheduling. More accurate,
more fair.
- make printk robust against self-recursion, and use stable
timestamps for printk-timestamps.
- the softlockup detector will now detect hung, uninterruptible tasks
automatically, and report them.
and a good number of other, smaller enhancements. Enjoy,
Ingo
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Alexey Dobriyan (1):
sched, futex: detach sched.h and futex.h
Arjan van de Ven (4):
debug: show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules
debug: track and print last unloaded module in the oops trace
sched: latencytop support
sched: keep total / count stats in addition to the ma...
