Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

Peter Williams
2007-04-17T00:06:53Z

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
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