Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

[Niels Heyvaert]

>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/
>
> Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before
> storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. "It was
> designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines,
> and not scale to massive hardware. ie it is a desktop orientated scheduler,
> with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather
> than 'calculated', with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and
> extreme scalability within normal load levels."
>
> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt
>

Reading the FAQ text and reactions on LWN it appears to me that the author has no intention whatsoever to merge this into the mainline kernel tree...
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