A Patch To Increase Performance?

cwizardone · 11-23-2010, 12:11 PM

Has anyone heard of this kernel patch and, if so, when it might be available for Slackware(64)?
Here is a summary and a link to the story:

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The patch, created by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith, is 233 lines long and tweaks the kernel scheduler and cutting down latency by a whopping factor of ten.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/t...e_skin;content

GazL · 11-23-2010, 12:15 PM

Most the discussion has been taking place here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...issing-845266/

I'm still not convinced the patch does anything that couldn't be done with the appropriate use of nice, but if it automates things for those who don't know what they're doing, then no harm done I suppose.

BrZ · 11-23-2010, 03:09 PM

If tech guys are banging heads, mind you us newbies, flocking here for information...

@cwizardone, I think (and hope) it'll be mainstream with kernel 2.6.38. By the way, I was expecting a 'little' more help.

cwizardone · 11-23-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BrZ

... By the way, I was expecting a 'little' more help.

You lost me on that one.

Ramurd · 11-24-2010, 09:13 AM

afaik the patch is scheduled for 2.6.38 indeed; Since 2.6.37 is still only available as RC it may be a little while ere we get 2.6.38, and thus when Pat will release it officially for Slackware as he's known to test things like that quite thoroughly... Remember how long Slackware stayed with the 2.2 kernels or 2.4 for that matter...

Us Slackers should be capable to compile our own kernels though ;-) It reminds me to get myself updated to 2.6.36.1 :-o

dustin2128 · 11-24-2010, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Ramurd

Us Slackers should be capable to compile our own kernels though ;-) It reminds me to get myself updated to 2.6.36.1 :-o

I haven't compiled a kernel since I used gentoo, but slackware uses the vanilla kernel, no? If so, it shouldn't be too difficult.

cwizardone · 12-04-2010, 11:28 PM

Looks like the openSUSE project has already incorporated this patch in their release of the fourth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4.

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06382