From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]O14int
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:21:43 +1000
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:56, Simon Kirby wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:06:34PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Is this with or without my changes? The old scheduler was not very
> > scalable; that's why we moved. The new one has other intrinsic issues
> > that I (and others) have been trying to address, but is much much more
> > scalable. It was not possible to make the old one more scalable, but it
> > is possible to make this one more interactive.
>
> Without your changes.  Are you changing the design or just tuning certain
> cases?  I was talking more about the theory behind the scheduling
> decisions and not about particular cases.

I'm just changing the algorithm that gives priority boost or penalty, and 
creating code to further feedback into that algorithm.

> The O(1) scheduler changes definitely help scalability and I don't have
> any problem with that change (unless it introduced the behavior I'm
> talking about).

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