Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:49:51 -0500 (EST) | From | "Andrew J. Anderson" <> | Subject | kernel scheduler |
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I seem to remember various people bringing up the idea of changing the way that the scheduler works, and it being shot down quite a while back. I have been looking at the QNX-style scheduler patches for 2.0.x, and I would like to know what the feeling is about touching the scheduling code.
I seem to remember that the main objections at the time (this was before the QNX-style patches) were that the proposed changes were too complex, and broke the KISS rule. Would a multilevel-feedback scheduler still be considered too complex for the kernel? Would SMP support benefit from this? Could real-time applications benefit?
What I'm after is a scheduler that works well under all loading conditions. I have had a machine up to a load of 178 before, and it took 3 days to get it back to normal. I know a bit of this was due to swapping, which is being addressed already, but I'd like to work with the scheduler to see if that would also help matters.
Your feedback on this will be appreciated.
Andrew
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