From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754340Ab2EOK2l (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 06:28:41 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47242 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751925Ab2EOK2k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 06:28:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1337077714.27694.21.camel@twins> Subject: Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP From: Peter Zijlstra To: Pantelis Antoniou Cc: Vincent Guittot , mou Chen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , torvalds@linux-foundation.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:28:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <833A8DB8-1AB4-45E4-8D44-14A0D782807D@gmail.com> References: <833A8DB8-1AB4-45E4-8D44-14A0D782807D@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 12:17 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > IMO this whole idea about 'server' or 'desktop' schedulers is bunk. Yeah, its complete shite. Everybody cares about throughput, latency and power. The exact balance might differ between workloads but those cannot be split between desktop/server at all. Furthermore, nobody wants one at all costs to the others.