From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965414AbXCFRsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:48:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965415AbXCFRsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:48:16 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:58887 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965410AbXCFRsP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:48:15 -0500 Message-ID: <45EDA9DF.6030305@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:50:23 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Heskett CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Mailhot Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler References: <54348.192.54.193.51.1173087934.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <200703050453.08154.gene.heskett@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703050453.08154.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> This looks like -mm stuff if you want it in 2.6.22 > > This needs to get to 2.6.21, it really is that big an improvement. > As Con pointed out, for some workloads and desired behavour this is not as good as the existing scheduler. Therefore it should go in -mm and hopefully give the user an option to select which is appropriate. With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later today. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot