Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc4-mm1] Task Throttling V14

[Nick Piggin]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > MIke Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Not many comments came back, zero actually.
> >
> >
> > That's because everyone's terribly busy chasing down those final bugs 
> > so we
> > get a really great 2.6.16 release (heh, I kill me).
> >
> > I'm a bit reluctant to add changes like this until we get the smpnice 
> > stuff
> > settled down and validated.  I guess that means once Ken's run all his
> > performance tests across it.
> >
> > Of course, if Ken does his testing with just mainline+smpnice then any
> > coupling becomes less of a problem.  But I would like to see some 
> > feedback
> > from the other sched developers first.
>
>
> Personally, I'd rather see PlugSched merged in and this patch be used to 
> create a new scheduler inside PlugSched.  But I'm biased :-)
>
> As I see it, the problem that this patch is addressing is caused by the 
> fact that the current scheduler is overly complicated.  This patch just 
> makes it more complicated.  Some of the schedulers in PlugSched already 
> handle this problem adequately and some of them are simpler than the 
> current scheduler -- the intersection of these two sets is not empty.
>
> So now that it's been acknowledged that the current scheduler has 
> problems, I think that we should be looking at other solutions in 
> addition to just making the current one more complicated.

I tried this angle years ago and it didn't work :)

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