Re: SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_BATCH numbering

Albert Cahalan
2004-08-05T05:02:14Z

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 23:06, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> >> However if you add or remove scheduling policies, your
> >> p->policy method breaks.
> >
> >
> > Not if Albert's numbering system is used.
> >
>
> What if another realtime policy is added? Or one is removed?

What if, what if...

You're going to have to change the code anyway.
One might toss this into <linux/sched.h> to make
as a nice reminder:

#define SCHEDS_RT (SCHED_RR|SCHED_FIFO)

As it is now, SCHED_FIFO is already used as a
bit flag in one place.