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SubjectRe: Trying out SCHED_BATCH
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.

Cheers,
Con
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