Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:45:38 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.X, NPTL, SCHED_FIFO and JACK |
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On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:45:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > In fairness, the CPU scheduler has been spinning like a top for a > couple of years, and it still ain't settled. > That's just the one in Linus's tree, let alone the umpteen rewrites > which are floating about.
I've not seen much deep material there. Policy tweaks seem to be what's gone on in mainline, and frankly most of the purported rewrites are just that. I guess the ones that nuked the duelling queue silliness are trying qualify but even they're leaving the load balancer untouched and are carrying over large fractions of their predecessors unaltered. The stuff that's gone around looks minor. It's not like they're teaching sched.c to play cpu tetris for gang scheduling or Kalman filtering profiling feedback to stripe tasks using different cpu resources across SMT siblings or playing graph games to meet RT deadlines, so it doesn't look like very much at all is going on to me.
It's pretty obvious why everyone and their brother is grinding out purported scheduler rewrites: the code is self-contained, however, nothing interesting is coming of all this. Never been for have so many patches been written against the same file, accomplishing so little.
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