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Subject: Re: [RFC] Static/Runtime CPU/IO bound scheduling polices based on
 CPU(s) to support complete spectrum of tasks
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
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On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:56 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:02 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:58 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:55:31PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > > I am planning to prepare the followings:
> > > 
> > > This seems all quite vague. Perhaps it would be good if you started
> > > with a clear definition what problem you're trying to solve.
> > > 
> > 
> 
> I do not surprise, if this approach seems vague to many developers
> because this is many years ahead of time.

Yes, or not.

For partitioning we have cpusets, for scheduler policies we have
sched_setscheduler().

The only thing we do not have are deadline schedulers, but people are
working on that -- its a rather complex piece of work.

The rest of you babbling is hand-waving about heuristics.