Re: [OKS] O(1) scheduler in 2.4

From: venom@sns.it
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 11:05:04 EST


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:44:32 +0200
> From: J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>
> To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
> Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [OKS] O(1) scheduler in 2.4
>
>
> On 2002.07.01 Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:52:54PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> >> What's the issue?
> >
> >a) We're at 2.4.19-rc1 right now. It would be horribly
> >counterproductive to put O(1) in right now.
>
> .20-pre1 would be a good start, but my hope is that this reserved for
> the vm updates from -aa ;).

If I am not wrong in the AA tree the O(1) scheduler has been merged, so
there is an opportunity do update booth ;).

>
> >c) I also suspect that it hasn't been as widley tested on !x86 as the
> >stuff currently in 2.4. And again, 2.4 is the stable tree.
> >
>
Well, I think it has been supposed to high quality test, also if the
tester basis was quite reduced...

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