How about putting your work on wiki in the same time, such as
your overall design, issues, patches, etc. as accompanied to
below update happening in mailing list?
Thanks,
Kevin
>From: George Dunlap
>Sent: 2009年5月5日 20:39
>
>OK, I'm still working on the new scheduler design, and I'd like the
>development to be as open as possible for several reasons:
>* To make sure everyone feels ownership, and has a say in the
>development
>* To take advantage of all the smart people out there
>
>However, I have several times drafted e-mails for two aspects I'm
>working on now (credit handling and load balancing), and ended up
>waiting for several reasons. First, to understand where I was, I
>thought it necessary to summarize the path that brought me there:
>i.e., why not use the existing system, or use it with minor tweaks.
>This always ends up taking a long time, and in the end it's hard to
>explain completely for the same reason that I'm still a little stuck:
>I don't understand it yet fully myself. Secondly, load balancing and
>credits are actually rather connected: one cannot be adequately solved
>without the other. Finally, there's always a disconnect between what
>one might expect to happen with a certain algorithm, and what actually
>happens in a given workload. So going into great lengths about the
>design (and possibly involving everyone's expertise), only to
>re-design it again after testing, I feared would risk wearying
>people's patience.
>
>So, I'm thinking about proceeding this way.
>
>First, everyone should understand that currently things are in
>development. So if getting involved in tossing out ideas and
>experimentation in this area interests you, read the mail. Otherwise,
>feel free to ignore it until I present it as a more finalized design.
>
>In order to facilitate this, I'm going to change the subject line from
>[RFC] to [ED] (Experimental development). When things seem more
>solid, and I'm presenting something that I want more developers to
>actually take a look at and check, I'll change the subject line back
>to [RFC].
>
>Secondly, I'm going to describe my ideas for load balancing in an
>e-mail, and then throw together a basic version with a patch that
>people can download and play around with. That should get us close
>enough to my load-balancing vision to be able to play with credits.
>
>I'm keen, once I get some basic prototypes working, to see how it runs
>for a wide number of workloads. So I'd appreciate anyone who's
>interested.
>
>Any feedback / advice on this plan is welcome.
>
>Peace,
> -George
>
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