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Subject: Re: How does a newbie find work?
From: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
To: "Gideon D'souza" <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:43:51 +0100
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On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 12:53 +0530, Gideon D'souza wrote: 
> So I was thinking of this hideous project (don't laugh!) at tearing
> out the CFS scheduler and then rewriting a very dumb scheduler in it's
> place. What do you guys think?  This is of course just to understand
> the scheduler better.
> 
> I just don't know how large or ridiculous this is though :)

Ripping CFS apart and putting it back together in better working order
is a better project.  Ripping things to bits is easy, it's the putting
things back together that can get down right interesting :)

-Mike

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