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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:53:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:

> This message is to announce the first general public release of the 
> "Rotating Staircase DeadLine" cpu scheduler.
> 
> Based on previous work from the staircase cpu scheduler I set out to 
> design, from scratch, a new scheduling policy design which satisfies 
> every requirement for SCHED_NORMAL (otherwise known as SCHED_OTHER) 
> task management.

cool! I like this even more than i liked your original staircase 
scheduler from 2 years ago :) Lets try what we did back then: put it 
into -mm and see what breaks (if anything). But in general, it is 
becoming increasingly clear that the interactivity estimator is a more 
fragile concept than the built-in quota mechanism of the staircase 
scheduler, so if it works in practice i'm quite in favor of it, even if 
it regresses /some/ workloads.

	Ingo