Re: [SHED] Questions.

[Nick Piggin]

Ian Kumlien wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 12:17, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > Search for "Nick's scheduler policy" ;)
>
> Heh, yeah, i have been following your and con's work via
> marc.theaimsgroup.com. =)

Well, my patch does almost exactly what you describe.

> But wouldn't ingos off the shelf stuff work better with the quantum
> values like that?

That means more complexity and behaviour that is more difficult
to trace. The interactivity stuff is already a monster to tune.

> And is the preempt min quantum in there?

No. If you do that, you'll either break the priority concept very
badly, or you'll break it a little bit and turn the scheduler into
an O(n) one.


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