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[Posted April 18, 2007 by corbet]

So I claim that anything that cannot be fair by user ID is actually really REALLY unfair. I think it's absolutely humongously STUPID to call something the "Completely Fair Scheduler", and then just be fair on a thread level. That's not fair AT ALL! It's the anti-thesis of being fair!

-- Linus Torvalds

It just reminds me that the concept of "release early, release often" doesn't actually work in the kernel. What is far more obvious is "release code only when it's so close to perfect that noone can argue against it" since most of the work is done by one person, otherwise someone will come out with a counterpatch that is _complete_ earlier but in all possibility not as good, it's just ready sooner.

-- Con Kolivas

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Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:02 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (6 responses)

Amen, Linus. Just call it "Completely fair process/thread scheduler" then, instead of assuming it is a "Completely fair user scheduler".
Or in other words: Linux is fair. It is just very decisive about who to be fair with. ;-9

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Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:37 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.

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Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:47 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Farewell to fairness.

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Posted Apr 20, 2007 0:53 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (3 responses)

Compelling names work. Just call it Patriot Scheduler or Freedom Scheduler. :)

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Posted Apr 20, 2007 9:32 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (2 responses)

The 'Motherhood and Apple Pie' scheduler - each process gets a slice, and
hands it out fairly to its children.

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Posted Apr 20, 2007 10:33 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

Just waitin' for the Full Metal Jacket Scheduler, where procs "are all equally worthless".

Pure comedy gold!

Posted Apr 20, 2007 20:09 UTC (Fri) by dion (guest, #2764) [Link]

Lets hope that noone ever writes the Beziers scheduler: "Kill them all and let init sort them out".

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Posted Apr 24, 2007 12:14 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

I must say, I've read mails from linus before, but he was particular rude here, popping out of nowhere. Still, the following discussion was very polite, and he of course has a point ;-)

I also feel Con's pain, his mail is worth reading... Still, CFS seems to have a cool design, so let's see how things progress.