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

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:06:48 +1000
From:	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair
 Scheduler [CFS]

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
-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@...pond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  -- Ambrose Bierce
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