From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030995AbXDRCDM (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:03:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031007AbXDRCDL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:03:11 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:46402 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030995AbXDRCDK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:03:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:03:29 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Peter Williams Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] Message-ID: <20070418020329.GS2986@holomorphy.com> References: <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> <462565EF.4030200@bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <462565EF.4030200@bigpond.net.au> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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. > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:27:27AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > 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? A quilt-friendly series would be most excellent if you could arrange it. Thanks. -- wli