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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:41:01 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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To: Ian Kumlien <pomac@vapor.com>
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Subject: Re: [SHED] Questions.
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Ian Kumlien wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 12:17, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Search for "Nick's scheduler policy" ;)
>>
>
>Heh, yeah, i have been following your and con's work via
>marc.theaimsgroup.com. =)
>

Well, my patch does almost exactly what you describe.

>
>But wouldn't ingos off the shelf stuff work better with the quantum
>values like that?
>

That means more complexity and behaviour that is more difficult
to trace. The interactivity stuff is already a monster to tune.

>
>And is the preempt min quantum in there?
>

No. If you do that, you'll either break the priority concept very
badly, or you'll break it a little bit and turn the scheduler into
an O(n) one.


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