On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 04:31:54PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > That's irrelevant. Plugsched was an attempt to get alternative > schedulers exposure in mainline. I know, because I remember > encouraging Bill to pursue it. Not only did you veto plugsched (which > may have been a perfectly reasonable thing to do), but you also vetoed > the whole concept of multiple schedulers in the tree too. "We don't > want to balkanize the scheduling landscape". > And that latter part is what I'm claiming has set us back for years. > It's not a technical argument but a strategic one. And it's just not a > good strategy. [... excellent post trimmed...]
These are some rather powerful arguments. I think I'll actually start looking at plugsched again. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
