From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265029AbUGGPxn (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:53:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265060AbUGGPxn (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:53:43 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52104 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265029AbUGGPxk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:53:40 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <40EC1C85.9030008@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:53:41 +0200 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040630) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: John Richard Moser , linux kernel mailing list , ck kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6.7-ck5 References: <40EC13C5.2000101@kolivas.org> <40EC1930.7010805@comcast.net> <40EC1B0A.8090802@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <40EC1B0A.8090802@kolivas.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > John Richard Moser wrote: >> When do you think the staircase, batch, and isometric scheduling will >> reach mainline-quality? Do you think you'll be ready to ask Andrew to >> merge it soon, or will it be a while before it's quite ready for that? > > > Well I think they're all ready for prime time now, I just dont think > prime time is ready for it. This is too large a change for mainline 2.6 > which keeps -ck in business ;) I don't know whether this was already discussed, but what about adding framework so that (like io-schedulers) the cpu scheduler could be chosen on boot time? This would make it easy to test different cpu schedulers. Cheers, Prakash