Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:13:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: RSDL v0.31 |
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> So in an attempt to summarise the situation, what are the advantages of RSDL > over mainline. > > Fairness
why do you think fairness is good, especially always good?
> Starvation free
even starvation is sometimes a good thing - there's a place for processes that only use the CPU if it is otherwise idle. that is, they are deliberately starved all the rest of the time.
> Much lower and bound latencies
in an average sense? also, under what circumstances does this actually matter? (please don't offer something like RT audio on an overloaded machine- that's operator error, not something to design for.)
> Deterministic
not a bad thing, but how does this make itself apparent and of value to the user? I think everyone is extremely comfortable with non-determinism (stemming from networks, caches, interleaved workloads, etc)
> Better interactivity for the majority of cases.
how is this measured? is this statement really just a reiteration of the latency claim?
> Now concentrating on the very last aspect since that seems to be the sticking > point.
nah, I think the fairness and latency claims are the real issues. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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