Re: Scheduler policies for staircase
From: Con Kolivas
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 01:49:02 EST
Maciej Soltysiak writes:
Con,
I have been using SCHED_BATCH on two machines now with expected
results. So this you might consider this as another success report :-)
Great. Thanks for the report. I too use them all day every day on each
machine I have with distributed computing clients so they're pretty well
tested.
Do you think that these schedulers could come into the mainline
soon? Would you submit them to Linus without the staircase scheduler
or would you rather wait for the whole bunch of changes to get
rock-stable ?
It could easily be modified to suit the current scheduler. Obviously I want
my scheduler to be considered for mainline at some stage in the future but
there needs to be a good reason for that to occur, and the 12 other
schedulers out there need to also be tested (we better hurry up or it could
be twice that soon :P). At this stage I'll hold onto these patches and see
what happens. I'd rather not have to rewrite it to suit the current
scheduler and go through all the bugtesting again since there isn't a
burning need for this scheduler policy in mainline at the moment. The
lack of a large amount of feedback about staircase shows that most people
aren't really interested in the cpu scheduler at the moment anyway.
Cheers,
Con
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