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So while with other, heuristic approaches we always had the problem of creating a "hyper-inflation" of an uneconomic virtual currency that could be freely printed by certain tasks, in CFS the economy of this is strict and the finegrained plus/minus balance is strictly managed by a conservative and independent central bank.
-- Ingo Molnar brings fiscal discipline to scheduling

We like it in the kernel, we find it to be warm and fuzzy. Whereas, user space is a cold, dark, and rainy place, and we just don't want to go there.
-- Matt Ranon
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Posted Apr 26, 2007 9:11 UTC (Thu) by deweerdt (subscriber, #18159) [Link]

My personal favorite:
"To get it unstuck we'd need a general push, get people looking at and testing the code, get the vendors to have a serious think about it, etc. We could do that - it'd require that the namesys people (and I) start making threatening noises about merging it, I guess.

Or we could move all the reiser4 code into kernel/sched.c - that seems to get
people fired up."
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6029258df...

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 27, 2007 7:49 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

But there are so much more friends in userspace! (Think /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib and /usr/lib64, etc.)

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