From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753007AbXDPRXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753083AbXDPRXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:23:06 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:58403 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753007AbXDPRXE (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:23:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4623B0C2.7080806@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:22:10 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Williams CC: William Lee Irwin III , Ingo Molnar , Matt Mackall , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Mike Galbraith , Arjan van de Ven , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] References: <20070413202100.GA9957@elte.hu> <200704151327.13589.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070415150536.GA6623@elte.hu> <20070415200535.GC11166@waste.org> <20070415204824.GA25813@elte.hu> <20070415233909.GE2986@holomorphy.com> <4622CC30.6030707@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <4622CC30.6030707@bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Apr 2007 17:22:14.0513 (UTC) FILETIME=[C6892E10:01C7804B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Williams wrote: > To my mind scheduling > and load balancing are orthogonal and keeping them that way simplifies > things. Scuse me if I jump in here, but doesn't the load balancer need some way to figure out a) when to run, and b) which tasks to pull and where to push them? I suppose you could abstract this into a per-scheduler API, but to me at least these are the hard parts of the load balancer... Chris