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The Completely Fair Scheduler

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-always-late dept.

hichetu writes "Kernel trap has a nice summary of what is going on behind the scenes to change the Linux Scheduler. The O(1) Linux scheduler is going to be changed so that it is fair to interactive tasks. You will be surprised to know that O(1) is really too good not to have any side-effects on fairness to all tasks."

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  1. Re:I/O prioritisation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fs_usage is what you're looking for. Oh wait, what's that? Linux is stuck in the '90s and doesn't have fs_usage? Well, make that one more thing for you to rip off other OSes, then.

  2. Re:credit goes to Con Kolivas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ingo the ego maniac? Lots of egos among the kernel hackers.
    People should read the thread ( http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059 )
    to see the politics of Linux kernel development.

  3. Re:Isnt this called Cron ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would such a stupid question end up on an exam? What would be the 'correct' answer?

  4. Re:Isnt this called Cron ? by xarak · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    We'll send it off for research at Virginia Tech.

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