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    SubjectRe: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
    Mike Galbraith wrote:
    > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:27 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
    >> On Saturday 14 April 2007 06:21, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >>> [announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler
    >>> [CFS]
    >>>
    >>> i'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Modular Scheduler Core
    >>> and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]" patchset:
    >>>
    >>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-modular+cfs.patch
    >>>
    >>> This project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal
    >>> is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the
    >>> vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both
    >>> for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads.
    >> The casual observer will be completely confused by what on earth has happened
    >> here so let me try to demystify things for them.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > Demystify what? The casual observer need only read either your attempt
    > at writing a scheduler, or my attempts at fixing the one we have, to see
    > that it was high time for someone with the necessary skills to step in.

    Make that "someone with the necessary clout".

    > Now progress can happen, which was _not_ happening before.
    >

    This is true.

    Peter
    --
    Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

    "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
    -- Ambrose Bierce
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