Am 11.06.2007 um 20:29 schrieb André Braga:
The most frequently asked question is, *SHOCK SURPRISE*, how does my proposed scheduler compares with the Completely Fair Scheduler recently introduced on Linux. Or, how one of the anonymous (hey, you could come out and say your name if you feel comfortable with that!) put it: "note, I didn't read your mail, so I don't know how well your scheduler would work for us. Also, I don't know anything about schedulers. I just wanted to ask, what do you think about the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS)? Do you think your scheduler suggestion will run comparably well on a desktop system? Personally, I wouldn't mind having the CFS reimplemented for Haiku if it's the best solution. Since you want to drop your first scheduler design I thought it might be worth asking about existing solutions."
With comments like that I can understand why the poster wished to remain anonymous! Linux's scheduling and desire to be all things to all people is one of its bigger problems.
Thank you André for a very informative paper. We don't have a heap of coders out there ready, willing and desperate to reinvent the wheel at every passing programming fad so we need research based development.
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