From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758586AbXG1WfW (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:35:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757353AbXG1WfL (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:35:11 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44536 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757318AbXG1WfJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:35:09 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alex Besogonov Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:16:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1185588279.1654.1.camel@localhost> <954c7c800707280045t4607cebfj532ef025a7a57c05@mail.gmail.com> <20070728225148.a0e58fdd.diegocg@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip.82.144.205.104.stat-3.volia.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > I personally feel that modal behaviour is bad, so it would introduce what > is in my opinion bad code, and likely result in problems not being found > and fixed as well (because people would pick the thing that "works for > them", and ignore the problems in the other module). I'm sorry, but this argument doesn't hold water. It was invoked years ago and turned out to be incorrect - the new CFS scheduler is not just a fixed old scheduler, it's a completely redesigned one. -- With respect, Alex Besogonov (cyberax@elewise.com)