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LFCS: ARM, control groups, and the next 20 years

LFCS: ARM, control groups, and the next 20 years

Posted Apr 16, 2011 13:46 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: LFCS: ARM, control groups, and the next 20 years by WolfWings
Parent article: LFCS: ARM, control groups, and the next 20 years

Umm... the current CFS scheduler was written (as was Con's deadline scheduler before it) to get all of those interactivity heuristics out of the kernel. They are still mostly gone. Con's BFS (which is not an O(1) scheduler sticks with the fairness approach. Things have improved since the O(1) days.


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