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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. Insightful video clip about Linux schedulers by rpp3po · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The lecturer is no native English speaker. So sometimes you have to replace the word 'base' with 'scheduler'. The clip shows deep insight into what Con Kolivas really feels is going on right now.

    http://www.scene.org/redhound/AYB.swf/

    1. Re:Insightful video clip about Linux schedulers by rpp3po · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      http://www.scene.org/redhound/AYB.swf ;)