Ingo Molnar Tests New BF Scheduler | Linux Today

Ingo Molnar Tests New BF Scheduler

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 9, 2009

[ Thanks to Britta Wuelfing for this
link. ]

“Ingo Molnar wasn’t quite ready to accept criticism of the
performance of his scheduler currently in the kernel compared to
the BFS version and put them both to a benchmark test. In his
posting he admits that BFS is still in its early stages, but finds
Kolivas’s code fascinating: ‘BFS is an interesting and bold new
approach, cutting a _lot_ of code out of kernel/sched*.c, so it
raised my curiosity and interest.'”


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