Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler

myvirtualid writes "Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS 'was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than 'calculated,' with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.'"

Comments

BFS is the Brain Fuck Scheduler.

[Errol backfiring]

Finally a worthy brainfuck program! ++!
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck)

So, lemme get this straight.

[Slartibartfast]

Someone returning after self-imposed ostracization to the LKML, and offering up an as-yet-untried (by third party) -- much less accepted -- scheduler rates higher than a new release of Asterisk?

*Must* be a slow news day.