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Kolivas Pushes New Kernel Responsiveness Patches
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| Con Kolivas had stopped working on the Linux
| kernel for two years after he became fed up
| with the kernel development community, but
| last year he made a return by introducing the
| BFS scheduler. The BFS scheduler for the Linux
| kernel is quite simple in design compared to
| other schedulers, but it performed fairly well
| on desktop systems. Due to Con's past
| frustrations, he has no intentions of
| mainlining the Brain Fuck Scheduler, but he
| has now offered up another batch of patches.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODAxOQ
Recent:
Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler
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| Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before
| storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. "It was designed
| to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not
| scale to massive hardware. ie it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with
| extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather
| than 'calculated', with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and
| extreme scalability within normal load levels."
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http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/
Linus Torvalds in Live Streaming from LinuxCon
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| The Linux Foundation will be holding its first LinuxCon conference from
| September 21 through 23 in Portland, Oregon. Linus Torvalds and Mark
| Shuttleworth will be among the speakers, and Linux Pro Magazine Online will
| do a live stream, free for the keynotes.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linus-Torvalds-in-Live-Streaming-from-LinuxCon
Related:
CFS scheduler to appear in Linux kernel 2.6.23
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| And also credit where credit's due, Con Kolivas was the first one to
| prove via RSDL/SD that 'fair scheduling' is possible and that it
| results in better desktop scheduling.
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http://www.linuxinsight.com/cfs-scheduler-to-appear-in-linux-kernel-2.6.23.html
Linux: Revisiting Swap Prefetch
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| Another thread discussed potentially merging the swap prefetch patch
| into the mainline Linux kernel. Con Kolivas started the thread saying
| "I fixed all bugs I could find and improved it as much as I could last
| kernel cycle. Put me and the users out of our misery and merge it now
| or delete it forever please."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/11748
Linux: Linus On CFS vs SD
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| "People who think SD was 'perfect' were simply ignoring reality," Linus
| Torvalds began in a succinct explanation as to why he chose the CFS scheduler
| written by Ingo Molnar instead of the SD scheduler written by Con Kolivas.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/14008
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