Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:17:43 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
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       Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:40:34PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> I'd just like to see less complication because less is faster and faster 
> means less overhead in kernel time.  If i have to do some of the work 
> that a bloated artificially intelligent schedular will do then i'm more 
> than happy to because that system is going to be able to scale much 
> better than something with complicated scheduling as the number of 
> processes increases.

... which only works so long as you've got root.


-- wli
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