Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

[Mike Galbraith]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:50 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote:

> maybe if it is possible to classify program behaviors that cause RSDL to
> do bad (relatively) or the mainline scheduler to jitter, we could try
> modifying the existing heuristics to get a better default scheduler.
> 
> of course, it wouldn't be able to cater to all the workloads and would
> meet everybody's definition of optimal. but getting close to optimal in
> most cases should be a good enough goal for linux's default sched!
> 
> i've been following this thread, and there's been many instances of
> 'RSDL is gr8' and 'RSDL regresses'.
> 
> maybe RSDL isn't the answer. maybe the current mainline sched isn't
> either. but RSDL definitely has done *something* right.

Agreed.

> What i think is needed is 'why this works here' and 'how to get this
> behavior to work with some other possibly conflicting but important
> workloads'.
> 
> (just my 2c :-)

IMHO, that's worth more than 2c.

	-Mike

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