Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759973AbXHAHJP (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754896AbXHAHJA (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:09:00 -0400 Received: from [202.78.101.198] ([202.78.101.198]:35185 "EHLO mx1.hq.astra.ph" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874AbXHAHI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:08:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46B03198.3080709@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:09:12 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hua Zhong Cc: "'Roman Zippel'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'jos poortvliet'" , ck@vds.kolivas.org, "'Michael Chang'" , "'Kasper Sandberg'" , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 References: <200707282003.45142.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <200707282128.39906.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <46B01E3F.6050401@gmail.com> <005001c7d403$8d7601a0$a86204e0$@com> In-Reply-To: <005001c7d403$8d7601a0$a86204e0$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1879 Lines: 50 Hua Zhong wrote: > I don't think it's the code superiority that decided the fate of the two > schedulers. When CFS came out, the fate of SD was pretty much already > decided. The fact is that Linus trusts Ingo, and as such he wants to merge > Ingo's code. Of course I cannot say it's wrong, and Ingo's earned this > it through years of hard work, but let's not kid ourselves and deny the > obvious fact. I agree with you here. It's not simply code superiority that matters but a balance of attitude and the code's corroboration with numbers. Both had numbers to show but I think that one's attitude was preferred over the other. > I think Con was simply too frustrated after years of rejection. He could > have been more diplomatic this time round. But no matter how he'd have > done, once Ingo decided to write a new scheduler, the outcome was pretty > much already decided. > > SD (and years of Con's work) inspired CFS. This is a fact. No matter how > smart and capable Ingo is, he needs inspiration to keep the good work going. > So I wish Ingo could work more closely with others and let them share a bit > more credit which would just produce even better work. I don't see where credit was lacking. As far as I've observed, SD's author was given acknowledgment on what he did and even got praise. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, UP Campus Diliman 1101 Quezon City, Philippines http://www.astra.ph -- The Astra Group of Companies 5-3-11 Sekido, Tama City Tokyo 206-0011, Japan http://www.astra.co.jp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/