From: wissner@birch.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner) Subject: Re: linux scheduler Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 01:51:37 GMT
In article <2B7E8E9C.33AE@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen):
> >I would like to replace the schedular in linux ...
>
> If anyone does take the time (heh) to do a scheduler, I should expect
> that the additional effort to make it a _fair_share_ scheduler would
> be quite worth the time. I've always wanted a scheduler that would
> make guarantees -- each user gets at least 5% of the CPU, the "dev"
> group gets at least 50%, etc...
> --
> Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>,
<73717.366@compuserve.com>
> "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
> want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
> and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
If you are interested, I've implemented an MLFQ that is quite
user-definable. It's not completely refined yet. But you can change the
number of queues, the quantums of each queue, the "threshold" of each
queue, etc.
- Jim