http://kerneltrap.org/taxonomy/term/330/0 en-local http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/CFS_Updates <div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/news/linux" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://kerneltrap.org/files/category_pictures/K-Linux.gif" alt="Linux news" title="Linux news" width="75" height="75" /></a></div><!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>"<i>Lots of scheduler updates in the past few days, done by many people,</i>" noted Ingo Molnar, going on to <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/9/24/287442">describe the more significant updates</a>. "<i>Most importantly, the SMP latency problems reported and debugged by Mike Galbraith should be fixed for good now.</i>" Ingo noted that the current code base was looking stable and was likely to be merged into the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel, "<i>so please give it a good workout and let us know if there's anything bad going on. (If this works out fine then i'll propagate these changes back into the CFS backport, for wider testing.)</i>" He went on to describe the other main changes in the development branch of the process scheduler:</p> <blockquote><p>"I've also included the latest and greatest group-fairness scheduling patch from Srivatsa Vaddagiri, which can now be used without containers as well (in a simplified, each-uid-gets-its-fair-share mode). This feature (CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED) is now default-enabled.</p> <p>"Peter Zijlstra has been busy enhancing the math of the scheduler: we've got the new 'vslice' forked-task code that should enable snappier shell commands during load while still keeping kbuild workloads in check."</p></blockquote> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p><a href="http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/CFS_Updates" target="_blank">read more</a></p> htt