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Quite frankly, I was *planning* on merging RSDL very early after 2.6.21, but there is one thing that has turned me completely off the whole thing:

the people involved seem to be totally unwilling to even admit there might be a problem.

This is like alcoholism. If you cannot admit that you might have a problem, you'll never get anywhere. And quite frankly, the RSDL proponents seem to be in denial ("we're always better", "it's your problem if the old scheduler works better", "just one report of old scheduler being better").

-- Linus Torvalds

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Quote of the week

Posted Mar 22, 2007 7:50 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

That message contains another good quote:

"...there is just _one_ thing that is more important than code - and
that is the willingness to fix the code."

So true.

Quote of the week

Posted Mar 23, 2007 0:22 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

I had an opportunity to read much of the entire thread on the LKML about RSDL. Linus appeared frustrated not necessarily at the performance issues caused by RSDL, but instead by the lack of anybody trying to more deeply examine the root cause(s) of these issues. It is fascinating to note the tone of the messages on this thread which were posted after Linus' rebuke above transformed into that of a more cooperative and supportive nature (my perception).

I, for one, appreciate Con Kolivas' hard work in trying to improve the performance of Linux in the spirit of open-source development. Whether RSDL gets merged into the mainline Kernel (and I hope it is merged) is less important than the idea that hundreds (thousands?) of hackers are working around the globe to produce the finest computer operating system available.