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Quotes of the week
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(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:02 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] 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
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:37 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 19, 2007 11:47 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Farewell to fairness.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 20, 2007 0:53 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Compelling names work. Just call it Patriot Scheduler or Freedom Scheduler. :)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 20, 2007 9:32 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] The 'Motherhood and Apple Pie' scheduler - each process gets a slice, andhands it out fairly to its children.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 20, 2007 10:33 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] 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 (subscriber, #2764) [Link] Lets hope that noone ever writes the Beziers scheduler: "Kill them all and let init sort them out".
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 24, 2007 12:14 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #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.
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