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The Really Fair Scheduler

Posted by kdawson on from the not-over-till-it's-over dept.

derrida writes "During the many threads discussing Ingo Molnar's recently merged Completely Fair Scheduler, Roman Zippel has repeatedly questioned the complexity of the new process scheduler. In a recent posting to the Linux Kernel mailing list he offered a simpler scheduler named the 'Really Fair Scheduler' saying, 'As I already tried to explain previously CFS has a considerable algorithmic and computational complexity. This patch should now make it clearer, why I could so easily skip over Ingo's long explanation of all the tricks CFS uses to keep the computational overhead low — I simply don't need them.'"

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  1. Coming soon by MarsDefenseMinister · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The completely unfair scheduler, which takes all the time from processes that deserve it and gives it to processes that are blocked. Otherwise known as the liberal scheduler.

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    1. Re:Coming soon by JazzyMusicMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I would love to use your unfair scheduler! A scheduler with liberal tendencies might block all this spyware. We know how fond 'W' is of spying...

  2. Re:Does it... by outZider · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The solution there would be 'FreeBSD'. :)

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  3. Re:But where is the Linux IO Scheduler? by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Welcome to Linux, where things are implemented not according to the greatest user need, but according to which things are of interest to geeks with their heads up their collective asses.

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