From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269046AbUHZP0y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:26:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269049AbUHZP0x (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:26:53 -0400 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:46522 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269046AbUHZPZQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:25:16 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:35:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040826014745.225d7a2c.akpm@osdl.org> <200408261636.06857.rjw@sisk.pl> <200408261646.08419.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> In-Reply-To: <200408261646.08419.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408261735.33573.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 of August 2004 16:45, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I think the problem is that relatively not so many people run -mm, and > > even less people try to use them for a longer time. Also, there > > sometimes are some issues with -mm that must be sorted out first, but > > then there's not much time left for testing the scheduler before the next > > -mm. > > I think this is the main reason of existence for -mm kernels: find > problems, sort them out and fix them. That's the point. You don't pay attention to the differences between schedulers if there are more serious problems, do you? > I've been running -mm kernels since > 2.5.80+ and all problems I have had were resolved in a timely manner. I agree, but it's a different thing. :-) > What I think is that Con's scheduler is the one that needs to get into -mm > kernels to give it more exposure. Currently, it has a very limited > audience. IMHO, -mm could stick for a while with one of the alternative schedulers so that it gets more testing. Regards, RJW -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman