Re: Scheduling Times --- Revisited

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:05:23 +1000


Olivier Galibert writes:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 10:08:36AM +0000, teamwork@freemail.c3.hu wrote:
> > "The harm is in making changes at all without
> > being able to justify them."
> >
> > _Justify_ ??
> >
> > Exactly what conditions is _qualified_ under your "justification" rule, Larry?
> >
> > Do we have to wait until something that is obviously broken before we start to
> > fix it?
>
> You have to wait until 2.2 is out before trying highly destabilizing
> changes and only fix what is obviously broken in the meantime.
>
> Of course you are free to go and implement such a thing, have it
> tested by the interessed people, and then give it for inclusion to
> Linus. But trying to have that integrated before 2.3.0 would be
> unwise.

If you go back to one of my early messages (#10 in the thread,
Message-Id: <199809180023.KAA29236@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>), you will
see that I suggested separating run queues as a possible 2.3 project.
I haven't suggested changing 2.1.x

Regards,

Richard....

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