Re: [PATCH]O14int

From: Simon Kirby
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 13:01:13 EST


On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:06:34PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:

> Is this with or without my changes? The old scheduler was not very scalable;
> that's why we moved. The new one has other intrinsic issues that I (and
> others) have been trying to address, but is much much more scalable. It was
> not possible to make the old one more scalable, but it is possible to make
> this one more interactive.

Without your changes. Are you changing the design or just tuning certain
cases? I was talking more about the theory behind the scheduling
decisions and not about particular cases.

The O(1) scheduler changes definitely help scalability and I don't have
any problem with that change (unless it introduced the behavior I'm
talking about).

Simon-
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