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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. Fuck this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's just go back to cooperative multitasking like Mac OS where everything was simple.

  2. Re:Does it... by ForumTroll · · Score: 5, Funny

    But do you really want firefox forcibly killed every time you visit youtube?
    Yes.
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  3. Sausages by chiok · · Score: 5, Funny

    "To retain respect for sausages and Linux schedulers, one must not watch them in the making."
    -- Otto von Bismarck (paraphrased)

  4. Re:Coming soon to a linux kernel near you: by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about the Scarbrough Fair Scheduler, that allocates Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thymeslices.

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