From: Erich F. <fo...@es...> - 2001-10-25 17:53:28
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Thanks for the hints, Natarjan is right, for IA64 the code should run out of the box. I had to replace "-1ULL" by "(cycles_t) -1" in kernel/sched.c, then the patch applied correctly. My first try with the fresh 2.4.13 kernel failed, it hangs in wait_init_idle... I'm just giving it another try with 2.4.12. Thanks for the help, Regards, Erich On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > > The patch was relatively straight forward. There was a mod to > sched.c in the IA64 patch that needed to be backed out to allow > the MQ scheduler patch to be applied cleanly. I don't think there > were any arch specific changes needed for IA64, although I don't > remember for sure. If the port isn't obvious, let me know and I'll > give it a try here. > > gerrit > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Erich Focht wrote: > > > > > > did anybody addapt the MQ scheduler to IA64-Linux? I'd like to test its > > > behavior on the NEC AzusA and am curious whether anybody did/does work on > > > the IA64 version. > > > > > > > I believe Gerrit Huizenga has ported the patch to an IA64 kernel > > in the past. He may be able to provide some insight. The code > > is mostly (if not entirely) architecture independent. > > > > -- > > Mike |