linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:57:23 -0700
From:	Bill Huey (hui) <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
To:	Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@...il.com>
Cc:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>, ck@....kolivas.org,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:15:17AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> And I think you are digressing from the main issue, which is the empirical 
> comparison of SD vs. CFS and to determine which is best.   The root of all 
> the scheduler fuss was the emotional reaction of SD's author on why his 
> scheduler began to be compared with CFS.

Legitimate emotional reaction for being locked out of the development
process. There's a very human aspect to this, yes, a negative human
aspect that pervade Linux kernel development and is overly defensive and
protective of new ideas.

> We obviously all saw how the particular authors tried to address the 
> issues.  Ingo tried to address all concerns while Con simply ranted about 
> his scheduler being better.  If this is what you think about being a bit 
> more human, then I think that this has no place in the lkml.

That's highly inaccurate and rather disrespect of Con's experience.
There as a policy decision made with SD that one person basically didn't
like, this person whined like a baby for the a formula bottle and didn't
understand how to use "nice" to control this inherent behavior of this
scheduler.

bill

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