Re: [PATCH] plugsched - update Kconfig-1

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:10, Peter Williams wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:22, Peter Williams wrote:
> >>Con Kolivas wrote:
> >>>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:34, Peter Williams wrote:
> >>>>1. Make the ability to select which schedulers are built in independent
> >>>>of EMBEDDED.
> >>>>2. Only offer builtin schedulers as choice for the default scheduler.
> >>>>3. Only build in ingosched if PLUGSCHED is not configured.
> >>>
> >>>I disagree with 3. Surely people might want to build in only one
> >>>scheduler that is not ingosched without other choices.
> >>
> >>Yes, and they would be able to do that by selecting PLUGSCHED and then
> >>selecting only the scheduler that they want.  But this then leads to the
> >>observation that PLUGSCHED is probably makes things unnecessarily
> >>complex and all that is required is a means to select the schedulers to
> >>be built in and a choice of default (much like for the IO schedulers)?
> >
> > Indeed it may be better to remove the "plugsched" option entirely. Once
> > patched in it's not like you are building the kernel without the
> > plugsched infrastructure. Provided each extra scheduler does not increase
> > the kernel size too much (and a test build with/without all schedulers
> > should tell you that), it may be best to just have the scheduler choice
> > in the top menu and only expose the "schedulers to build in" under
> > embedded.
>
> I can't see why this should be restricted to embedded systems?

It's just convention that size options go in there; it's not really just for 
embedded systems.

Cheers,
Con