Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][plugsched 0/28] Pluggable cpu scheduler framework | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:28:33 +0100 |
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Hi, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I believe that by compartmenting in the wrong way [*] we kill the > natural integration effects. We'd end up with 5 (or 20) bad generic > schedulers that happen to work in one precise workload only, but there > would not be enough push to build one good generic scheduler, because > the people who are now forced to care about the Linux scheduler would be > content about their specialized schedulers.
I don't think so. There are multiple attempts to build a better generic scheduler (Con's for one), so there's your counterexample right here. However, testing a different scheduler currently requires a kernel recompile and a reboot.
I hate that. Ideally, the scheduler would be hotpluggable... but I can live with a reboot. I don't think a kernel recompile to switch schedulers makes sense, though, so I for one am likely not to bother. So far.
You can't actually develop a better scheduler if people need to go too far out of their way to compare them.
-- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de
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