Showing posts with label 3.10.0. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3.10.0. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

BFS 0.440, -ck1 for linux-3.10

I finally managed to set up some 3g wireless internet in this remote mountain village I'm staying in (probably the first to ever do so). After a few revisions I was able to bring BFS into line with mainline. There are no significant changes to the design itself, but hopefully a few minor fixes have come along as a result of the resync as I also carved out bits of code not relevant to BFS and tinkered with the shutdown mechanism a bit more. As for the new tickless on busy CPU feature from mainline, it is not being offered in BFS as it is quite orthogonal to a design that so easily moves tasks from one CPU to another, and it provides no advantage for desktop/laptop/tablet/PDA/mobile device/phone/router etc. which BFS is targeted towards.

Some of the configuration code was also changed since the last version allowed you to generate an invalid configuration. You might get some strange warnings about the IRQ TIME ACCOUNTING configuration option but it should be harmless.

Get BFS by itself for 3.10.0 here:
3.10-sched-bfs-440.patch

 After careful consideration, I've decided to remove the remaining -ck patches and just make the -ck patchset BFS with some extra default config options and the -ck tag. As I've said previously, those other patches were from long ago, the kernel has changed a lot since then, and I've been unable to confirm they do anything useful any more, whereas there have been reports of regressions with them.

Get the -ck tagged patchset here:
3.10-ck1

Enjoy!
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