Originally posted by mrugiero
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The other quality of a scheduler is responsiveness. Honestly, I do not know how this can be measured but by looking at the code, for BFS, I can understand what to expect when a process wakes up from sleeping state and it will be picked up very fast.
With CFS and all its tricks, it is opaque to me what really will happen and I guess not a lot of people can predict easily how CFS behave in regards to responsiveness.
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