linux/arch
Arnd Bergmann 2a911f0bb7 [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2].
This patch reduces lock complexity of SPU scheduler, particularly
for involuntary preemptive switches.  As a result the new code
does a better job of mapping the highest priority tasks to SPUs.

Lock complexity is reduced by using the system default workqueue
to perform involuntary saves.  In this way we avoid nasty lock
ordering problems that the previous code had.  A "minimum timeslice"
for SPU contexts is also introduced.  The intent here is to avoid
thrashing.

While the new scheduler does a better job at prioritization it
still does nothing for fairness.

From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:52:58 +11:00
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alpha [PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (alpha part) 2006-01-06 08:33:40 -08:00
arm [ARM] Move asm/hardware/clock.h to linux/clk.h 2006-01-07 16:15:52 +00:00
arm26 arch/arm26/nwfpe/fpmodule.c: remove kernel 2.0 #ifdef 2006-01-03 13:42:12 +01:00
cris [PATCH] cris: kgdb: remove double_this() 2006-01-06 08:33:45 -08:00
frv [PATCH] frv: improve signal handling 2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
h8300
i386 x86: remove bogus 'pci=usepirqmask' suggestion when no irq is defined 2006-01-06 08:43:16 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] Fix compile warnings in setup.c 2006-01-05 13:30:52 -08:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: Remove unnecessary icu_data_t definitions 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] m68k: convert thread flags to use bit fields 2005-11-13 18:14:14 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: enable_irq/disable_irq 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
mips Relax the rw_verify_area() error checking. 2006-01-04 16:20:40 -08:00
parisc [PARISC] Remove unused variable in signal.c 2005-11-17 16:43:52 -05:00
powerpc [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2]. 2006-01-09 14:52:58 +11:00
ppc [PATCH] ppc: removed unused variable i from code. 2006-01-09 14:51:37 +11:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig 2006-01-06 08:33:53 -08:00
sh [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle rework 2005-11-09 07:56:33 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle rework 2005-11-09 07:56:33 -08:00
sparc [SPARC]: Use STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG macros in vmlinux.lds.S 2005-12-28 13:22:54 -08:00
sparc64 [SPARC]: Use STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG macros in vmlinux.lds.S 2005-12-28 13:22:54 -08:00
um [PATCH] uml: free network IRQ correctly 2006-01-06 08:33:48 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: use generic hardirq code 2005-11-15 08:59:20 -08:00
x86_64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-01-06 15:23:56 -08:00
xtensa Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodel 2005-11-11 09:24:26 -08:00