linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:50:23 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu
   scheduler

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> This looks like -mm stuff if you want it in 2.6.22
> 
> This needs to get to 2.6.21, it really is that big an improvement.
> 
As Con pointed out, for some workloads and desired behavour this is not 
as good as the existing scheduler. Therefore it should go in -mm and 
hopefully give the user an option to select which is appropriate.

With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later 
today.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
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