From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
raz ben yehuda <raziebe@gmail.com>,
riel@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
andrew motron <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
wiseman@macs.biu.ac.il, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A943A00.9080609@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251227322.7538.1172.camel@twins>
On 08/25/2009 01:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Christoph, stop being silly, this offline scheduler thing won't happen,
> full stop.
>
> Its not a maintainable solution, it doesn't integrate with existing
> kernel infrastructure, and its plain ugly.
>
> If you want something work within Linux, don't build kernels in kernels
> or other such ugly hacks.
Is it the whole concept of isolating one or more cpus from all normal
kernel tasks that you don't like, or just this particular implementation?
I ask because I know of at least one project that would have used this
capability had it been available. As it stands they have to live with
the usual kernel threads running on the cpu that they're trying to
dedicate to their app.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-22 23:27 RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 5:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-23 9:09 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 7:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-23 11:05 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 9:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-25 15:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 17:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-25 18:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 18:12 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] ` <5d96567b0908251522m3fd4ab98n76a52a34a11e874c@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-25 22:32 ` Fwd: " Raz
2009-08-25 19:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-25 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 19:22 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-08-25 20:35 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2009-08-26 5:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 10:29 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 8:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-26 8:16 ` Raz
2009-08-26 13:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 14:45 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-08-26 14:54 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 15:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 15:11 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 15:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 16:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 16:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 18:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 19:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 20:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-26 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 21:15 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-26 21:37 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 16:51 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-27 17:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-27 21:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-27 22:22 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 2:15 ` Rik van Riel
2009-08-28 3:33 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 4:27 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 10:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 18:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 19:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 20:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 20:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 20:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-31 19:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-31 17:44 ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-01 18:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-01 16:15 ` Roland Dreier
2009-08-29 17:03 ` jim owens
2009-08-31 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-31 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 6:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-27 23:51 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-28 0:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 21:20 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-28 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-27 21:33 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 22:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 8:38 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-28 10:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 13:25 ` Rik van Riel
2009-08-28 13:37 ` jim owens
2009-08-28 15:22 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 21:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-27 2:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-08-26 21:34 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 21:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 21:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 21:32 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 7:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-26 15:37 ` Chetan.Loke
2009-08-26 15:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25 21:09 ` Éric Piel
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