Information on AQuoSA downloads

• kernel-patches, containing required kernel patches for the Linux kernel:
  • kernel-gensched-x.y.z.patch: Generic Scheduler Patch, to be applied to the Linux kernel with same release
  • kernel-source-x.y.z.tar.bz2: already patched Linux kernel, to be configured enabling the "GENERIC_SCHEDULER" option, compiled and installed
  • kernel-*-x.y.z.deb: binary .deb package for the patched kernel, to be installed through the dpkg program
• aquosa-qosres, containing lower level components (CPU resource reservations scheduler):
  • aquosa-qosres-x.y.z.tar.gz: main sources of the AQuoSA qosres component
  • aquosa-qosres_[aquosa-ver]-[kernel-ver]_[arch].deb: binary .deb package for the AQuoSA qosres component
  • aquosa-docs-x.y.z.zip: automatically generated html documentation for the kernel and application level APIs
• aquosa-qosmgr, containing the QoS Management higher level components (feedback-based scheduling):
  • aquosa-qosmgr-x.y.z: main sources of the AQuoSA qosmgr component
• kernel-binaries, containing pre-compiled kernel packages. For Debian-like distributions, we use the make-kpkg utility, from within a Vanilla kernel tree that has been patched applying the Generic Scheduler Patch, using the "--revision" option to replace the default string "Custom-10.00" with the distribution name.

  For example, this is how we generated the Debian packages for an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) distribution:

    make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --revision ubuntu7.04 binary-arch

  Such kernel packages have an EXTRAVERSION with a "-gs-x.y" suffix added, with respect to the original kernel packages. This results into a kernel for which the output of the "uname -r" command has the extra-suffix as well. Please, take this into account if you need to compile or use additional kernel modules that are not included in the Vanilla kernel tree.
• aquosa-mod_reserve, containing the Resource Reservation Module for Apache:
  • aquosa-mod_reserve-x.y.z: main sources of the AQuoSA mod_reserve component, an Apache2 module (available for Linux) which extends Apache allowing to reserve a certain CPU bandwidth for the provisioning of a service.
• aquosa-monitor, containing a GUI-oriented CPU reservation monitor and manager:
  • aquosa-monitor-x.y.z-[gsm-ver].tgz: modification to the gnome-system-monitor program for monitoring and managing QoS parameters of running processes
• aquosa-build, containing the all-in-one download and compilation script:
  • aquosa-build-x.y.z.tgz: script for the automatic download and build of AQuoSA, that downloads appropriate release of the Linux kernel, patches, GNU Make and AQuoSA sources, patches the kernel, configures it with a standard configuration and compiles AQuoSA