>>So in an attempt to summarise the situation, what are the advantages of RSDL
>>over mainline.
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>>Fairness
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>why do you think fairness is good, especially always good?
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>>Starvation free
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>even starvation is sometimes a good thing - there's a place for processes
>that only use the CPU if it is otherwise idle. that is, they are
>deliberately starved all the rest of the time.
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>>Much lower and bound latencies
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>in an average sense? also, under what circumstances does this actually
>matter? (please don't offer something like RT audio on an overloaded machine-
>that's operator error, not something to design for.)
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>>Deterministic
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>not a bad thing, but how does this make itself apparent and of value
>to the user? I think everyone is extremely comfortable with non-determinism
>(stemming from networks, caches, interleaved workloads, etc)
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>>Better interactivity for the majority of cases.
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>how is this measured? is this statement really just a reiteration of
>the latency claim?
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>>Now concentrating on the very last aspect since that seems to be the sticking
>>point.
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>nah, I think the fairness and latency claims are the real issues.
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