Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-18T02:03:12Z

> 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:
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.5-for-2.6.21-rc7.patch>
> 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