linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

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Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:34:19 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@...il.com>
Cc:	Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@...il.com>,
	Kasper Sandberg <lkml@...anurb.dk>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck@....kolivas.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:50 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote:

> maybe if it is possible to classify program behaviors that cause RSDL to
> do bad (relatively) or the mainline scheduler to jitter, we could try
> modifying the existing heuristics to get a better default scheduler.
> 
> of course, it wouldn't be able to cater to all the workloads and would
> meet everybody's definition of optimal. but getting close to optimal in
> most cases should be a good enough goal for linux's default sched!
> 
> i've been following this thread, and there's been many instances of
> 'RSDL is gr8' and 'RSDL regresses'.
> 
> maybe RSDL isn't the answer. maybe the current mainline sched isn't
> either. but RSDL definitely has done *something* right.

Agreed.

> What i think is needed is 'why this works here' and 'how to get this
> behavior to work with some other possibly conflicting but important
> workloads'.
> 
> (just my 2c :-)

IMHO, that's worth more than 2c.

	-Mike

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