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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying out SCHED_BATCH
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:41:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D3B121.1020600@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd304122923362d823e34@mail.gmail.com>

Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:20:28 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>>Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Andrew,
>>> what's your plan for the staircase scheduler ?
>>
>>I have none, frankly.  I haven't seen any complaints about the current
>>scheduler.
>>
>>If someone can identify bad behaviour in the current scheduler which
>>staircase improves then please describe a tescase which the scheduler
>>developers can use to reproduce the situation.
>>
>>If, after that, we deem that the problem cannot be feasibly fixed within the
>>context of the current scheduler and that the problem is sufficiently
>>serious to justify wholesale replacement of the scheduler then sure,
>>staircase is an option.
> 
> 
> Your answer makes lot of sense.
> I think Con can explain the pro and cons of the staircase scheduler.

I agree fully with Andrew. I'm not going there while we have 2.6 forever 
development.

Cheers,
Con

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-30  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-25 11:31 Trying out SCHED_BATCH Rajsekar
2004-12-25 11:41 ` Con Kolivas
2004-12-29 20:14   ` Maciej Soltysiak
2004-12-29 20:28     ` Con Kolivas
2004-12-29 22:46       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-12-29 22:56         ` Con Kolivas
2004-12-30  7:12           ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-12-30  7:20             ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-30  7:36               ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-12-30  7:41                 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2004-12-30 16:16               ` Bill Davidsen
2005-01-02  0:26                 ` Peter Williams
2004-12-25 11:46 ` Matan Peled
2004-12-25 18:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-25 23:09   ` Con Kolivas

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