Re: Trying out SCHED_BATCH

[Con Kolivas]

Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:20:28 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew,
> > > what's your plan for the staircase scheduler ?
> >
> > I have none, frankly.  I haven't seen any complaints about the current
> > scheduler.
> >
> > If someone can identify bad behaviour in the current scheduler which
> > staircase improves then please describe a tescase which the scheduler
> > developers can use to reproduce the situation.
> >
> > If, after that, we deem that the problem cannot be feasibly fixed within the
> > context of the current scheduler and that the problem is sufficiently
> > serious to justify wholesale replacement of the scheduler then sure,
> > staircase is an option.
>
>
> Your answer makes lot of sense.
> I think Con can explain the pro and cons of the staircase scheduler.

I agree fully with Andrew. I'm not going there while we have 2.6 forever 
development.

Cheers,
Con
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