From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751776AbYIWJMZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:12:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750900AbYIWJMR (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:12:17 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49216 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbYIWJMQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:12:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:11:59 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH] CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies Message-ID: <20080923091159.GE31189@elte.hu> References: <200809231101.41624.ms@teamix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200809231101.41624.ms@teamix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Martin Steigerwald wrote: > The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to > scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling policies > it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information for it in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2 > > This patch is based on 2.6.27-rc7. > > Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald looks good to me - but could you please do the patch against the latest scheduler tree, which has already updated this file (and which made your patch not apply cleanly): http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README also: > --- sched-design-CFS.txt-2.6.27-rc7 2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200 > +++ sched-design-CFS.txt 2008-09-23 10:33:01.107393509 +0200 please use -p1 to create patches - or since you've just set up the tip/master tracking, do something like: git-commit Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt and then export the commit you just created for use in emailing, via: git log --pretty=email --stat -1 -p > mail.txt Ingo