From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161451AbXDRB7E (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:59:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161453AbXDRB7E (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:59:04 -0400 Received: from qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.93.182]:61267 "EHLO qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161451AbXDRB7C (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:59:02 -0400 Message-ID: <462565EF.4030200@bigpond.net.au> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:27:27 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] References: <20070416110439.GH2986@holomorphy.com> <46237239.1070903@bigpond.net.au> <20070416135915.GK8915@holomorphy.com> <46241677.7060909@bigpond.net.au> <20070417025704.GM8915@holomorphy.com> <462445EC.1060306@bigpond.net.au> <20070417053147.GN8915@holomorphy.com> <46246A7C.8050501@bigpond.net.au> <20070417064109.GP8915@holomorphy.com> <46247E86.5090706@bigpond.net.au> <20070417104141.GV8915@holomorphy.com> <4624D027.4040500@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <4624D027.4040500@bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at oaamta06sl.mx.bigpond.com from [58.164.138.40] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:27:33 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Williams wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I was tempted to restart from scratch given Ingo's comments, but I >> reconsidered and I'll be working with your code (and the German >> students' as well). If everything has to change, so be it, but it'll >> still be a derived work. It would be ignoring precedent and failure to >> properly attribute if I did otherwise. > > I can give you a patch (or set of patches) against the latest git > vanilla kernel version if that would help. There have been changes to > the vanilla scheduler code since 2.6.20 so the latest patch on > sourceforge won't apply cleanly. I've found that implementing this as a > series of patches rather than one big patch makes it easier fro me to > cope with changes to the underlying code. I've just placed a single patch for plugsched against 2.6.21-rc7 updated to Linus's git tree as of an hour or two ago on sourceforge: This should at least enable you to get it to apply cleanly to the latest kernel sources. Let me know if you'd also like this as a quilt/mq friendly patch series? Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce