linux-kernel - Re: Ten percent test

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Message-Id: <1176138625.6109.69.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:10:25 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: Ten percent test

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:14 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:

> This turned into an interactivity thing, and while interactivity is in 
> fact better for a large majority of testers, that isn't what Kolivas' 
> scheduler is about. It's about predictability and leaving the dead-end 
> road of these endlesss tweaks, which then break previous tweaks, rinse, 
> repeat.

To me, it's more than an interactivity thing.  It is also about reacting
to a dynamic environment, which the desktop is.  SD is not dynamic.

> It's unfortunate that Kolivas is having health problems currently, but I 
> certainly do hope that his scheduler finds its way into _a_ -rc1. He 
> said it was done...

Well, there I disagree with him quite strongly, but it's not my decision
what gets integrated into any tree but my own ;-)

	-Mike

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