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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1][PATCH] POSIX SCHED_SPORADIC implementation for tasks and groups
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:30:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218472252.10800.107.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218471794.6450.87.camel@Palanthas>

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 18:23 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to create struct sched_param2 with plenty of
> > padding to support future expansion and add
> > sys_sched_setscheduler2()/sys_sched_getscheduler2() to deal with this
> > new structure.
> And we will miss POSIX compliance. :-(
> Anyway, I agree the ABI issue this could raise are serious enough and, I
> repeat, I can't see any other solution too.

Well, a new version of glibc could use those to implement the posix
interface. Because as I understand it, glibc can break ABI on certain
version bumps.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-11 13:49 [RFC 0/1][PATCH] POSIX SCHED_SPORADIC implementation for tasks and groups Dario Faggioli
2008-08-11 14:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-08-11 14:25   ` Dario Faggioli
2008-08-11 14:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-11 16:23     ` Dario Faggioli
2008-08-11 16:30       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-08-11 16:49         ` Dario Faggioli
2008-08-11 17:17         ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-08-17 22:27           ` Dario Faggioli

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