Intel Chief Evangelist Comments on Linux Scheduler

ByeByeWintel writes "James Reinders is Intel's Chief Evangelist for Intel's Software Development Products. In a recent interview on Devx.com he stated: 'If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads, for scheduling. And demand that processes manage their scheduling of threads ... There is a lot of opportunity for operating systems to offer these types of control in the 'running of applications' interfaces. I'd like an OS to let me specify the 'world' my application runs in (which processors, how many, etc.) These interfaces are available in Windows at run time (the task manager will let you adjust where a running task can go).'"

the real world, too.

[User 956]

If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads

Yeah, a lot of us feel the same way about the fancy-dressing guys that work over in the sales office.

Oh, man

[Anonymous Coward]

I scheduled an interview with linux a while back. It was all like, "LINE UP", and I was like, "WUT?", and it was like, "What's your priority?", but I was all like, "interupt, bitch", and it was like, "cool, SWAP", and I was all like, "I'm in ur processor, executin' my code".

Re:the real world, too.

[OverflowingBitBucket]

If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads

Yeah, a lot of us feel the same way about the fancy-dressing guys that work over in the sales office.

If there ever was a case for a "+1 Brilliant" moderation option or a final moderation of (Score:6 Funny), this is it.

Intel's Chief Evangelist

[MightyMartian]

And I'm gonna tell ya... I'm gonna tell all the people here-a, that the Lord has come... Amen! Yes indeed, and the Glorious Pentium IV has arrive-ed! Praise be to Pentium! And lo, the sheep of the field will line down-a with the process, and the thread-a will be managed by the application!

Oh, don't be fooled by the Devil... No-a! AMD is the sign of the Beast-a! And he shall be cast out of heaven! Raise-a your hands to the heavens and press CTRL-ALT-DELETE!

Re:Intel's Chief Evangelist

[maz2331]

CAN I GET A REBOOT!
(Reboot!)

Re:Oh, man

[$RANDOMLUSER]

"I'm in ur cache, screwin up ur prefetsh algorythm"

Re:the real world, too.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try (Score:5 Troll)

Re:Oh, man

[Anonymous Coward]

How long have you been waiting for a story about process scheduling so that you could post that comment?

Re:Intel's Chief Evangelist

[Anonymous Coward]

Wonder if Dean would get upset if KDE evangelists took up saying "Kamen" after every KDE praise? Wonder if the Flying Spaghetti Monster had anything to do with the naming of North Dumpling Island?

Sorry, bit offtopic but couldn't resist.

Re:Puh-leeeeze!

[macshit]

Apple's Technology Evangelists are some of the most talented technical marketing professionals I've ever met

Wait a minute, is that a compliment or an insult?!?

Re:The name doesn't need to be obvious

[ricegf]

Is the name 'ls' obvious? Is 'cat' obvious?

Well, sure. 'ls' gives you a catalog of files on the disk, while 'cat' lists one or more of the files' contents. But Windows' 'dir' is much harder to remember - it just means "Drrr, I wonder what's in this folder?"

Re:its called "scheduler activations"

[anticypher]

it was certainly fun trying to write a user space context switch routine that has to be reentrant itself, not to mention trying to deal with priority inversion issues

I haven't worked in that field in some number of decades, but I'm going to have nightmares because of that phrase. You heartless Bastard, at least warn us that the path to madness lies within your post.

the AC
sits here rocking back and forth, afraid to google what Tom Anderson's later works covered, but knowing I'm about to lose my weekend to this

Re:Oh, man

[ettlz]

Ahh, straight from the lolCPU pages of "I CAN HAS TIMEZLICE?".

Obligatory Steve Martin

[snowwrestler]

If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.

If I had two wishes that I could wish for this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace.. and the second would be for $30 million a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account.

You know, if I had three wishes that I could make this holiday season, first, of course, would be for all the children to get together and sing . . . the second would be for the $30 million every month to me . . . and the third would be for all encompassing power over every living being thing in the entire universe.

And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, first would be the crap about the kids . . . second would be for the $30 million . . . the third would be for all the power.. and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year for an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought about slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina somebody, I can't think of her name, of course my lovely wife could come, too. She's behind me 100% on this, I guarantee you.

Wait a minute, maybe that sex thing should be the first wish! So, if I made that the first wish, because, you know, it could all go boom tomorrow, and then what have you got? No, no . . . the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. No, no, who am I kidding! I mean, they're not gonna be able to get all those kids together! I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible! It's more trouble than it's worth!

So, we reorganize: here we go. First, the sex - we go with that; second, the money. No! We go with the power second, then the money, and then the kids. Oh, wait, oh geez! I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay . . . revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in Hell! That would be the fourth wish! And of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of peace and harmony.

Thank you, everybody.