Re: [PATCH] V-3.0 Single Priority Array O(1) CPU Scheduler Evaluation

Andi Kleen
2004-08-03T06:51:56Z

> But let me re-repeat again that CPU scheduler problems tend to take a
> _long_ time to turn up - you make some change and two months later some
> person with a weird workload on expensive hardware hits a nasty corner
> case. So I do think that we'd have to hit a nasty problem with the current
> scheduler to go making deep changes.

How about just simplifying the code? Both Con's and Peter's code
look a lot simpler compared to the stock scheduler and are easier
to understand. If they don't work significantly worse I think that
would be a strong argument to move to one of them.

-Andi