* Linus Torvalds "Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:09:28 -0700 (PDT)"
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to change topic big time because your sentence above
>> perfectly applies to the O(1) scheduler too.
>
> I disagree to a large degree.
>
> We almost never have problems with code you can "think about".
>
> Sure, bugs happen, but code that everybody runs the same generally doesn't
> break. So a CPU scheduler doesn't worry me all that much. CPU schedulers
> are "easy".
>
> What worries me is interfaces to hardware that we know looks different for
> different people. That means that any testing that one person has done
> doesn't necessarily translate to anything at *all* on another persons
> machine.
>
> The timer problems we had when merging the stuff in 2.6.21 just scarred
> me. I'd _really_ hate to have to go through that again. And no, the
> "gradual" thing where the patch that actually *enables* something isn't
> very gradual at all, so that's the absolutely worst kind of thing, because
> then people can "git bisect" to the point where it got enabled and tell us
> that's where things broke, but that doesn't actually say anything at all
> about the patch that actually implements the new behaviour.
>
> So the "enable" kind of patch is actually the worst of the lot, when it
> comes to hardware.
>
> When it comes to pure software algorithms, and things like schedulers,
> you'll still obviously have timing issues and tuning, but generally things
> *work*, which makes it a lot easier to debug and describe.
>
> Linus
Seconded (obviously).
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