Re: [BuildStream] Scheduler optimization

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 08:30 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
[...]
> While we're changing the scheduler architecture, I'm wondering whether
> we should also consider implementing/supporting a make job server (or
> at least make sure it would be possible to support this in the future).
> This would likely improve scheduling quite a bit for local execution.
> And the push-based model would make this a much better fit, i.e., it
> matches the direction we're going.

Wouldn't it also make sense to consider job servers in the remote
execution scenario ?

I expect that most remote execution setups involve large servers where
many remote workers are running.

(That said, I think we're a bit off topic here and think we should be
careful to not lump too many changes into the same activity, it just
makes sense to consider how jobs servers fit into a future where this
scheduler change happens).

Cheers,
   -Tristan