Oracle Is Working On Interrupt-Aware Scheduler For Linux

[Hi-Angel]

MySQL would disagree. Off the top of my head, so would OpenOffice and Jenkins.

Ok, I've just read the events caused forks, because I never knew details beyond just "something happened". I don't know what to think about it — except of Oracle firing up devs of OpenOffice, those events are so subtle, especially given that the projects are still open.

[Vistaus]

especially given that the projects are still open.

... but they did close Solaris.

[bug77]

Ok, I've just read the events caused forks, because I never knew details beyond just "something happened". I don't know what to think about it — except of Oracle firing up devs of OpenOffice, those events are so subtle, especially given that the projects are still open.

Splitting the community is the worst thing you can do to an open source project. Especially since at least part of the contributors are volunteering their time.
And look at MySQL: it has seen 5 major releases in the 15 years before Oracle got it and only 7 minor releases in the 10 years since.

[nanonyme]

... but they did close Solaris.

I'm not sure they literally closed it either, they just turned its future roadmaps to not have future releases

[cj.wijtmans]

people still use mysql?

[nanonyme]

people still use mysql?

Many corporate entities do

[bug77]

people still use mysql?

Google does. But many have switched to MariaDB.

But this is irrelevant. The danger to Oracle was MySQL becoming an established competitor and they fixed that.

[Garp]

*tongue in cheek* Wait - Hold up - Wait a minute - hang on here - Oracle doing something good!? :P

Oracle is one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel and has been for a long time. Given that's the OS their database product runs on, they have a vested interest in the performance of the OS.

[kodi]

Is this perhaps a reinvention of IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING? See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/12/556.

[bug77]

Is this perhaps a reinvention of IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING? See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/12/556.

Ha, good find.