Re: [RFC][PATCH] scheduler: credit scheduler for client virtualization

[NISHIGUCHI Naoki <nisiguti@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Thank you for your comment.

I'll try to be suitable for both server and client.

Regards,
Naoki Nishiguchi

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 03/12/2008 08:54, "NISHIGUCHI Naoki" <nisiguti@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please review this patch.
>> Any comments are appreciated.
> 
> Don't hack it into the existing sched_credit.c unless you are really sharing
> significant amounts of stuff (which it looks like you aren't?).
> sched_bcredit.c would be a cleaner name if there's no sharing. Is a new
> scheduler necessary -- could the existing credit scheduler be generalised
> with your boost mechanism to be suitable for both client and server?
> 
> The issue with multiple schedulers is that it's most likely the non-default
> will not be tested, used or maintained. The default credit scheduler gets
> little enough love as it is, and it's really the only sensible scheduler to
> choose now (SEDF is not great -- good example of a rotten non-default
> scheduler).
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> 
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