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

Peter Williams
2007-04-18T02:31:59Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 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.

Done:

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

Just untar this in the base directory of your Linux kernel source and
Bob's your uncle.

Peter
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