Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]O14int | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:21:43 +1000 |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:56, Simon Kirby wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:06:34PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Is this with or without my changes? The old scheduler was not very > > scalable; that's why we moved. The new one has other intrinsic issues > > that I (and others) have been trying to address, but is much much more > > scalable. It was not possible to make the old one more scalable, but it > > is possible to make this one more interactive. > > Without your changes. Are you changing the design or just tuning certain > cases? I was talking more about the theory behind the scheduling > decisions and not about particular cases.
I'm just changing the algorithm that gives priority boost or penalty, and creating code to further feedback into that algorithm.
> The O(1) scheduler changes definitely help scalability and I don't have > any problem with that change (unless it introduced the behavior I'm > talking about).
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