The end of tasklets

Posted Feb 7, 2024 11:04 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The end of tasklets by farnz
Parent article: The end of tasklets

> which triggered investigation into alternatives to CFS, and then inspired Zijlstra to implement EEVDF in a way that matched or beat CFS while also providing latency-nice.

And this is why Torvalds is such a good manager (and steward). He's not attached to his version, and he actively encourages these short-lived forks precisely to find the best way to do things. Which he then shamelessly appropriates :-)

Cheers,
Wol