Nick Piggin [interview] released v16 of his scheduler patch today. He describes his current focus:

"I'm starting to do some large SMP / NUMA testing. Fixed and changed quite a bit. It isn't too bad, although I'm only testing dbench, tbench, and volanomark at the moment."

From: Nick Piggin [email blocked]
To: linux-kernel [email blocked]
Subject: Nick's scheduler v16
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:50:12 +1000

Hi

http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v16/

I'm starting to do some large SMP / NUMA testing. Fixed and changed quite
a bit. It isn't too bad, although I'm only testing dbench, tbench, and
volanomark at the moment.

These SMP and NUMA changes are not tied to my interactivity stuff, so its
possible they could get included if they turn out well. If you find any
problems with it (high end or interactivity), please let me know.



From: Nick Piggin [email blocked]
Subject: Re: Nick's scheduler v16
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:18:15 +1000



Nick Piggin wrote:

> Hi
>
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v16/
>
> I'm starting to do some large SMP / NUMA testing. Fixed and changed quite
> a bit. It isn't too bad, although I'm only testing dbench, tbench, and
> volanomark at the moment.
>

Oh, if anyone can suggest other benchmarks I could use it would be good
(I'm currently getting osdl's dbt2 set up). System is 16-way 16GB ia32
NUMA and very minimum disk bandwidth. Thanks.

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