Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:04:07 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler |
| |
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ed Tomlinson wrote: >> The patch _does_ make a difference. For instance reading mail with freenet working >> hard (threaded java application) and gentoo's emerge triggering compiles to update the >> box is much smoother. >> >> Think this scheduler needs serious looking at. > > I agree, partly because it's obviously been getting rave reviews so far, > but mainly because it looks like you can think about behaviour a lot > better, something that was always very hard with the interactivity > boosters with process state history. > > I'm not at all opposed to this, but we do need: > - to not do it at this stage in the stable kernel > - to let it sit in -mm for at least a short while > - and generally more people testing more loads. > Please, could you now rethink plugable scheduler as well? Even if one had to be chosen at boot time and couldn't be change thereafter, it would still allow a few new thoughts to be included.
> I don't actually worry too much about switching out a CPU scheduler: those > things are places where you *can* largely read the source code and get an > idea for them (although with the kind of history state that we currently > have, it's really really hard). But at the very least they aren't likely > to have subtle bugs that show up elsewhere, so... > I confess that the default scheduler works for me most of the time, i/o tuning is more productive. I want tot test with kvm load, but 2.6.21-rc3-git3 doesn't want to run kvm at all, I'm looking to see what I broke, since nbd doesn't work, either.
I'm collecting OOPS now, will forward when I have a few more.
> So as long as the generic concerns above are under control, I'll happily > try something like this if it can be merged early in a merge window.. > > Linus
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/
| |