scheduler – Just another Linux geek

19 November, 201019 November, 2010FOSS

Miracle patch out-performed by four lines of bash

Well it’s nothing if not interesting. The ~200 line “miracle” patch promises a huge improvement in desktop responsiveness, but Lennart Poettering (from Red Hat) has replied to Linus’ praising comments […]

18 November, 2010FOSS

Con Kolivas posts his thoughts on the new ~200 line kernel patch

Con Kolivas (of SD/BFS fame) has posted his thoughts on the new ~200 line “miracle” kernel patch. It’s an interesting read. In short, he had already implemented something like this […]

17 November, 201018 November, 2010FOSS

~200 line miracle Linux patch

There’s been lots of criticism from certain camps that Linus and the kernel developers don’t care enough about the desktop and that it has too much focus on big iron. […]

8 October, 2009FOSS

I Have a Schedule to Keep – IO Schedulers

Jeffrey Layton has written an interesting overview of schedulers under Linux. When the change in scheduler is performed the “old” scheduler completes all of it’s requests before control switches over […]