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I wonder if they are discouraged by the experience of Con Kolivas[1] who proposed an alternative scheduler back in 2007. (Apparently he is still maintaining his
by justinmk 11y ago
I wonder if they are discouraged by the experience of Con Kolivas[1] who proposed an alternative scheduler back in 2007. (Apparently he is still maintaining his "-ck" fork of the linux kernel[2]!)
I only mention this as a historical case that has remained in my memory. Maybe Linus is willing to revisit the issue, I don't follow LKML.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas
[2] http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2015/12/bfs-467-linux-43-ck3.html http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2015/12/bfs-467-linux-43-ck3.htm...
- LoSboccacc 11y agoI remember the whole debacle back then when the lkml was summarized on that website I can't remember It'd be interesting to see if that branch exhibit the same behavior and issues.
- tremon 11y agoMaybe KernelTrap? I was sad when it shut down, it was a very useful resource for following Linux development from the sidelines.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoYeah that one! The memories.
- DCoder 11y agoYou might be thinking of LWN. They covered the scheduler multiple times over the years: https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Scheduler https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Scheduler
- doe88 11y agoI do not follow Kernel Dev enough to have a good representation of what happened, but it seems to me that it was another example of smart people pushed out. Nowadays I think he is just maintaining his patches from one kernel release to the next, it was smart for Con to stop interacting with them and move to other types of devs, it comes a point where you have to keep your sanity.