Nick Piggin [interview] released version 18 of his scheduler patch today saying, "Nothing exciting for desktop users. High end performance is now starting to get better. Has an (unimportant) accounting fix that shouldn't really be here, but doesn't look like it will get in before 2.6.0." He goes on to add, "Volanomark looks much better than mainline."

From: Nick Piggin [email blocked]
To: linux-kernel [email blocked]
Subject: Nick's scheduler v18
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:20:06 +1100

http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v18/

Nothing exciting for desktop users. High end performance is now starting
to get better.

Has an (unimportant) accounting fix that shouldn't really be here, but
doesn't look like it will get in before 2.6.0.

Average of 5 kernel compiles (make -j) on a 16-way 512KB cache NUMAQ gives
         bk14  bk14-v18
real    83.5s     81.7s
user   987.6s    992.5s
sys    158.0s    142.3s

Volanomark looks much better than mainline.

More testing welcome.

• Archive of above thread
• KernelTrap interview with Nick Piggin