Linux: Linus On CFS vs SD

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 28, 2007 9:21 AM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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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. He continued, "sadly, that seemed to include Con too, which was one of the main reasons that I never [entertained] the notion of merging SD for very long at all: Con ended up arguing against people who reported problems, rather than trying to work with them."

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