Linux: Linus On CFS vs SD

“‘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.’ He went on to stress the importance of
working toward a solution that is good for everyone, ‘that was
where the SD patches fell down. They didn’t have a maintainer that
I could trust to actually care about any other issues than his
own.’ He then offered some praise to Ingo, ‘as a long-term
maintainer, trust me, I know what matters. And a person who can
actually be bothered to follow up on problem reports is a *hell* of
a lot more important than one who just argues with
reporters…'”

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