From: Mike K. <mkr...@se...> - 2001-02-10 00:12:21
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I agree with most everything people have written so far. As a relative newcomer to Linux kernel development, I was under the impression that there was some reluctance to change the existing scheduler implementation. Because of this, I thought it important to see how far we could take scheduler implementations which try to maintain existing scheduler behavior. This was my primary motivation for the multi-queue scheduler implementation. As already pointed out, this allows for an apples-to-apples comparison. In addition, if an implementation maintains existing behavior I suspect it is more likely to be accepted into the main code base. If we are able to get such a change accepted, this may make it easier to get changes which depart from existing behavior accepted in the future. Of course, this is all my opinion as a relative newcomer. -- Mike Kravetz mkr...@se... IBM Linux Technology Center |