On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:45:32PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > There isn't any big advantage and doesn't seem to be much usage of
> > > > modular schedulers.
> > > >
> > > > OTOH, the overhead made the kernel image of an x86 defconfig (that
> > > > doesn't use modular schedulers) bigger by nearly 2 kB.
> > >
> > > Big nack, I use it all the time for testing.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > > Just because you don't
> > > happen to use it is not a reason to remove it.
> >
> > s/you/you and all distributions you checked/
>
> Well they should make them modules (two of them, that is).
>...
Is there any technical reason why we need 4 different schedulers at all?
I have the gut feeling that the usual thing happens and people e.g. not
report some cfq problems because as works for them...
> Jens Axboe
cu
Adrian
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