Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

Bill Huey
2007-07-31T09:57:55Z

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:15:17AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> And I think you are digressing from the main issue, which is the empirical
> comparison of SD vs. CFS and to determine which is best. The root of all
> the scheduler fuss was the emotional reaction of SD's author on why his
> scheduler began to be compared with CFS.

Legitimate emotional reaction for being locked out of the development
process. There's a very human aspect to this, yes, a negative human
aspect that pervade Linux kernel development and is overly defensive and
protective of new ideas.

> We obviously all saw how the particular authors tried to address the
> issues. Ingo tried to address all concerns while Con simply ranted about
> his scheduler being better. If this is what you think about being a bit
> more human, then I think that this has no place in the lkml.

That's highly inaccurate and rather disrespect of Con's experience.
There as a policy decision made with SD that one person basically didn't
like, this person whined like a baby for the a formula bottle and didn't
understand how to use "nice" to control this inherent behavior of this
scheduler.

bill