From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754087AbXDQAGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754086AbXDQAGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:52 -0400 Received: from omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.82.153]:30975 "EHLO omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754091AbXDQAGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 82787 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:51 EDT Message-ID: <46240F98.3020800@bigpond.net.au> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:06:48 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Galbraith CC: Con Kolivas , Ingo Molnar , ck list , Bill Huey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] References: <20070413202100.GA9957@elte.hu> <200704151327.13589.kernel@kolivas.org> <1176619384.6222.70.camel@Homer.simpson.net> In-Reply-To: <1176619384.6222.70.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at oaamta01ps.mx.bigpond.com from [58.164.138.40] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:06:49 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:27 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: >> On Saturday 14 April 2007 06:21, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> [announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler >>> [CFS] >>> >>> i'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Modular Scheduler Core >>> and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]" patchset: >>> >>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-modular+cfs.patch >>> >>> This project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal >>> is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the >>> vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both >>> for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads. >> The casual observer will be completely confused by what on earth has happened >> here so let me try to demystify things for them. > > [...] > > Demystify what? The casual observer need only read either your attempt > at writing a scheduler, or my attempts at fixing the one we have, to see > that it was high time for someone with the necessary skills to step in. Make that "someone with the necessary clout". > Now progress can happen, which was _not_ happening before. > This is true. Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce