On 09/10/2010 09:43 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
..why hasn't FreeBSD's scheduler been ported to Linux? Or is the whole software stack (block devices etc.) so completely different that it wouldn't work?
Well, I can't answer your question, but you just reminded me that Linus himself once declared that the scheduler "is not an interesting problem". It certainly seems to be an emotional problem, though, based on more recent events. This is really more for linux gossip junkies than for techno-geeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas