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Intel Chief Evangelist Comments on Linux Scheduler

Posted by Zonk on from the little-penguins-everywhere dept.

ByeByeWintel writes "James Reinders is Intel's Chief Evangelist for Intel's Software Development Products. In a recent interview on Devx.com he stated: 'If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads, for scheduling. And demand that processes manage their scheduling of threads ... There is a lot of opportunity for operating systems to offer these types of control in the 'running of applications' interfaces. I'd like an OS to let me specify the 'world' my application runs in (which processors, how many, etc.) These interfaces are available in Windows at run time (the task manager will let you adjust where a running task can go).'"

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  1. the real world, too. by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads

    Yeah, a lot of us feel the same way about the fancy-dressing guys that work over in the sales office.

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  2. Oh, man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I scheduled an interview with linux a while back. It was all like, "LINE UP", and I was like, "WUT?", and it was like, "What's your priority?", but I was all like, "interupt, bitch", and it was like, "cool, SWAP", and I was all like, "I'm in ur processor, executin' my code".

    1. Re:Oh, man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      How long have you been waiting for a story about process scheduling so that you could post that comment?

  3. Intel's Chief Evangelist by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I'm gonna tell ya... I'm gonna tell all the people here-a, that the Lord has come... Amen! Yes indeed, and the Glorious Pentium IV has arrive-ed! Praise be to Pentium! And lo, the sheep of the field will line down-a with the process, and the thread-a will be managed by the application!

    Oh, don't be fooled by the Devil... No-a! AMD is the sign of the Beast-a! And he shall be cast out of heaven! Raise-a your hands to the heavens and press CTRL-ALT-DELETE!

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    1. Re:Intel's Chief Evangelist by maz2331 · · Score: 3, Funny

      CAN I GET A REBOOT!
      (Reboot!)

  4. Re:Puh-leeeeze! by macshit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple's Technology Evangelists are some of the most talented technical marketing professionals I've ever met

    Wait a minute, is that a compliment or an insult?!?

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  5. Re:The name doesn't need to be obvious by ricegf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the name 'ls' obvious? Is 'cat' obvious?

    Well, sure. 'ls' gives you a catalog of files on the disk, while 'cat' lists one or more of the files' contents. But Windows' 'dir' is much harder to remember - it just means "Drrr, I wonder what's in this folder?"

  6. Re:its called "scheduler activations" by anticypher · · Score: 4, Funny

    it was certainly fun trying to write a user space context switch routine that has to be reentrant itself, not to mention trying to deal with priority inversion issues

    I haven't worked in that field in some number of decades, but I'm going to have nightmares because of that phrase. You heartless Bastard, at least warn us that the path to madness lies within your post.

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