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Well, this settles it for me

Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 8:11 UTC (Mon) by andreashappe (subscriber, #4810)
In reply to: Well, this settles it for me by Cato
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

> So the whole focus on netbooks is a waste of time, then?

I was talking about _mainline_. Pray read the rest of my post (where I mentined out-of-tree patches). And AFAIK embedded systems often have out-of-tree patchsets for their architectures.

> The majority of laptops and desktops these days cost less than 1000 Euros/USD

If some scheduler thing would be added to the kernel this would take 2-3 release cycles (at least).. by which time multi-core systems are even more common than today.

cheers, Andreas

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Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 15:45 UTC (Mon) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link] (2 responses)

Embedded systems are using fewer and fewer non-mainline patches - essentially all the CPU vendors who don't have good mainline support are experiencing substantial pressure to sort that situation out sooner rather than later.

Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 16:01 UTC (Mon) by andreashappe (subscriber, #4810) [Link] (1 responses)

wouldn't the situation be the same with an out-of-tree scheduler? If it would reap benefits then pressure for inclusion would build up.

cheers, Andreas

Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 16:25 UTC (Mon) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link]

Yes, though Con's disinterest in that might be an issue.


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