From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+w=401wt.eu-S1758729AbZLKPEn@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id S1758729AbZLKPEn (ORCPT <rfc822;w@1wt.eu>);
	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:04:43 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754959AbZLKPEj
	(ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing>);
	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:04:39 -0500
Received: from home.kolivas.org ([59.167.196.135]:59962 "EHLO home.kolivas.org"
	rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id S1754207AbZLKPEi (ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:04:38 -0500
From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:51 +1100
User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.32-ck1; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; )
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <200912111124.18118.kernel@kolivas.org> <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912110809320.32415@router.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912110809320.32415@router.home>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200912120204.51547.kernel@kolivas.org>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of replacing
> the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low footprint
> scheduler.
> 

It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. To 
get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they 
wouldn't patch it in the first place.

Thanks,
-- 
-ck