From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932436AbWBYCmd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:42:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932505AbWBYCmd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:42:33 -0500 Received: from smtp105.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.215]:7263 "HELO smtp105.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932436AbWBYCmc (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:42:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=e5HX5itcm3stMbz31J+liCipE7+YXVCdN1dtQc/RbuDsCkocl6OrkENQKICUmui22iZaRT6JGeCnuJUuLjlst8Xe/IvyPYfvwxOcvtUegqAFSkYajOwP10YkyFvZZPDF5kAv/hHv9buR+xFVcp23jKHo/lxucWMjIzt6ByzGHjs= ; Message-ID: <43FFC411.8010106@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:42:25 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Williams CC: Andrew Morton , MIke Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, kernel@kolivas.org, "Chen, Kenneth W" Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc4-mm1] Task Throttling V14 References: <1140183903.14128.77.camel@homer> <1140812981.8713.35.camel@homer> <20060224141505.41b1a627.akpm@osdl.org> <43FFAFE9.8000206@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <43FFAFE9.8000206@bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Williams wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> MIke Galbraith wrote: >> >>> Not many comments came back, zero actually. >>> >> >> >> That's because everyone's terribly busy chasing down those final bugs >> so we >> get a really great 2.6.16 release (heh, I kill me). >> >> I'm a bit reluctant to add changes like this until we get the smpnice >> stuff >> settled down and validated. I guess that means once Ken's run all his >> performance tests across it. >> >> Of course, if Ken does his testing with just mainline+smpnice then any >> coupling becomes less of a problem. But I would like to see some >> feedback >> from the other sched developers first. > > > Personally, I'd rather see PlugSched merged in and this patch be used to > create a new scheduler inside PlugSched. But I'm biased :-) > > As I see it, the problem that this patch is addressing is caused by the > fact that the current scheduler is overly complicated. This patch just > makes it more complicated. Some of the schedulers in PlugSched already > handle this problem adequately and some of them are simpler than the > current scheduler -- the intersection of these two sets is not empty. > > So now that it's been acknowledged that the current scheduler has > problems, I think that we should be looking at other solutions in > addition to just making the current one more complicated. > I tried this angle years ago and it didn't work :) -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com