The Really Fair Scheduler

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.'"

Comments

Flamebait or necessary oversight?

[amightywind]

Unfortunately Ingo Molmar's opportunistic and unethical behavior in stonewalling the valuable contributions of Con Kolivas invite increased outside scrutiny for his handling of scheduler contributions. In my opinion he should be replaced.