From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912120937.42943.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912110910490.32415@router.home>
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:12:58 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > 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.
>
> BFS would have a chance to be merged as an alternate scheduler for
> specialized situations (such as embedded or desktop use).
>
Nice idea, but regardless of who else might want that, the mainline
maintainers have already made it clear they do not.
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 0:24 BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32 Con Kolivas
2009-12-11 10:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-11 14:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-11 15:04 ` Con Kolivas
2009-12-11 15:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-11 22:37 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2009-12-12 0:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-12 2:00 ` Con Kolivas
2009-12-12 3:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-12 5:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-12-12 6:10 ` Con Kolivas
2009-12-12 6:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-12-14 14:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-18 15:44 ` BFS v0.312 configurable " Con Kolivas
2009-12-14 14:50 ` BFS v0.311 " Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 0:56 ` Con Kolivas
2009-12-12 7:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-20 4:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-12-11 22:06 ` Bill Davidsen
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