Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:27 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 April 2007 06:21, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > [announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler
> > > [CFS]
> > >
> > > i'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Modular Scheduler Core
> > > and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]" patchset:
> > >
> > >    http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-modular+cfs.patch
> > >
> > > This project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal
> > > is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the
> > > vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both
> > > for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads.
> > The casual observer will be completely confused by what on earth has happened 
> > here so let me try to demystify things for them.
>
> [...]
>
> Demystify what?   The casual observer need only read either your attempt
> at writing a scheduler, or my attempts at fixing the one we have, to see
> that it was high time for someone with the necessary skills to step in.

Make that "someone with the necessary clout".

> Now progress can happen, which was _not_ happening before.

This is true.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
 -- Ambrose Bierce
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