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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Povolotsky, Alexander wrote:
>> Is there a chance such functionality will make into Linux 2.6 as a patch 
>> (at some later time) ?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:32:16AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> Not until the current scheduler is replaced with a single priority array 
> scheduler.  However, if there's enough interest, I could add this 
> functionality to the CPU scheduler evaluation patch so that people could 
> experiment with it (BUT it would be at the bottom of my to do list).

Well, this is in part because it makes the assumption of such a data
structure and then does if (scheduler_type == FOO) { /* FOO's thing */ }
in the midst of various manipulations of the struture instead of having
methods for higher-level scheduler operations.

As certain reputable news sources have said, I wish people would write
more ambitious scheduler patches. =)


-- wli