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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:44:32 +0200
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [OKS] O(1) scheduler in 2.4
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On 2002.07.01 Tom Rini wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:52:54PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> What's the issue?
>
>a) We're at 2.4.19-rc1 right now.  It would be horribly
>counterproductive to put O(1) in right now.

.20-pre1 would be a good start, but my hope is that this reserved for
the vm updates from -aa ;).

>b) 2.4 is the _stable_ tree.  If every big change in 2.5 got back ported
>to 2.4, it'd be just like 2.5 :)

So you want to wait till 2.6.40 to be able to use a O1 scheduler on a
kernel that does not eat up your drives ? (say, next year by this same month...)

>c) I also suspect that it hasn't been as widley tested on !x86 as the
>stuff currently in 2.4.  And again, 2.4 is the stable tree.
>

I know it is not a priority for 2.4, but say it wil never happen...

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