PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

But, hey, if that scratches your itch go right ahead.
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Comedy schedulers like this actually are useful for understanding how much of a scheduler's efficiency comes simply from time not being wholly random and how much comes from the nature of that non-randomness. These are "placebo" schedulers in any such analysis, if you like.

I would love to see someone compile a complete set of schedulers that have either made it into the kernel or have been offered. (HP's heirarchical scheduler system plus their sample schedulers would be examples of proposed ideas that were never adopted, I think the Red Hat M:N scheduler briefly was). If these ideas were all placed alongside each other today in the modern kernel, it would be interesting to see how they'd rank - say, on overheads, throughput of high-priority tasks, average throughput, frequency of erratic behaviours, etc.

I doubt anyone has the time to actually do this, but it would allow us to see clearly how ideas across time compare (regardless of the limitations of the setting they were in at the time of implementation).

> "In space, no one can hear you schedule."

And a qdisc that matches nearby road traffic conditions.