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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:09:12 +0800
From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@...il.com>
To: Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>
Cc: 'Roman Zippel' <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
'jos poortvliet' <jos@...nkamer.nl>, ck@....kolivas.org,
'Michael Chang' <thenewme91@...il.com>,
'Kasper Sandberg' <lkml@...anurb.dk>,
'Linux Kernel Mailing List' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1
Hua Zhong wrote:
> I don't think it's the code superiority that decided the fate of the two
> schedulers. When CFS came out, the fate of SD was pretty much already
> decided. The fact is that Linus trusts Ingo, and as such he wants to merge
> Ingo's code. Of course I cannot say it's wrong, and Ingo's earned this
> it through years of hard work, but let's not kid ourselves and deny the
> obvious fact.
I agree with you here. It's not simply code superiority that matters but a
balance of attitude and the code's corroboration with numbers. Both had
numbers to show but I think that one's attitude was preferred over the other.
> I think Con was simply too frustrated after years of rejection. He could
> have been more diplomatic this time round. But no matter how he'd have
> done, once Ingo decided to write a new scheduler, the outcome was pretty
> much already decided.
>
> SD (and years of Con's work) inspired CFS. This is a fact. No matter how
> smart and capable Ingo is, he needs inspiration to keep the good work going.
> So I wish Ingo could work more closely with others and let them share a bit
> more credit which would just produce even better work.
I don't see where credit was lacking. As far as I've observed, SD's author
was given acknowledgment on what he did and even got praise.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
Carlo
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