 Messages in this thread SubjectRe: Circular Convolution
scheduler Nick Piggin wrote: > I don't know anything about it,
but I don't see what exactly you'd be > trying to predict: the
kernel's scheduler _dictates_ scheduling behaviour, > obviously.
Also, "best use of system resources" wrt scheduling is a big >
ask considering there isn't one ideal scheduling pattern for all
but the > most trivial loads, even on a single processor
computer (fairness, latency, > priority, thoughput, etc). Its
difficult to even say one pattern is better > than another.
Hmm. Prediction is potentially useful.  Instead of an educated
ad-hoc pile of heuristics for _dictating_ scheduling behaviour,
you can systematically analyse just what is it you're trying to
achieve, and design a behaviour which achieves that as closely
as possible.  This is where good predictors come in: you feed
all the possible scheduling decisions at any point in time into
the predictor, and use the output to decide which decision gave
the most desired result