Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:41:21 +1100 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Trying out SCHED_BATCH |
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Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:20:28 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > >>Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Andrew, >>> what's your plan for the staircase scheduler ? >> >>I have none, frankly. I haven't seen any complaints about the current >>scheduler. >> >>If someone can identify bad behaviour in the current scheduler which >>staircase improves then please describe a tescase which the scheduler >>developers can use to reproduce the situation. >> >>If, after that, we deem that the problem cannot be feasibly fixed within the >>context of the current scheduler and that the problem is sufficiently >>serious to justify wholesale replacement of the scheduler then sure, >>staircase is an option. > > > Your answer makes lot of sense. > I think Con can explain the pro and cons of the staircase scheduler.
I agree fully with Andrew. I'm not going there while we have 2.6 forever development.
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