What was the name of that anesthesiologist who about decade ago did a lot of work in desktop UI latency in Linux kernel? How did it went? Was any of it integrated to mainline kernel?
That's Con Kolivas. It wasn't merged, he maintained patches out of tree until recently[0]. A pity as latency doesn't seem like a high priority for Linux. Strictly speaking a real-time OS isn't about that though, that's about bounded latency, not low latency.
Nothing was merged, and last time I tried the nvidia driver didn't work with his scheduler. It's a shame, because BFS was the snappiest desktop experience I've had on Linux.
I remember quite a few small utilities and sites I've seen over the years were written by anesthesiologists, not career software developers. I wonder why.
can you elaborate, is it to track drug concentration profiles or work out some kind of body weight to dosage formulae or something? What's going on exactly that pushes them into the technical space.
