On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:53 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:29:32PM +0200, Damien Wyart wrote: > >> What are your thoughts/plans concerning merging CFS into mainline ? Is > >> it a bit premature to get it into 2.6.22 ? I remember Linus was ok to > >> change the default scheduler rapidly (the discussion was about sd at > >> that time) to get more testing than in -mm. > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:23:18PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > And what about group scheduling extensions? Do you have plans to work on > > it? I was begining to work on a prototype to do group scheduling based > > on CFS, basically on the lines of what you and Linus had outlined > > earlier: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/18/271 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/18/244 > > Tong Li's Trio scheduler does a bit of this, though it doesn't seem to > have the mindshare cfs seems to have acquired. > > The hyperlink seems to have broken, though: > http://www.cs.duke.edu/~tongli/linux/linux-2.6.19.2-trio.patch
Yeah, I just fixed the link. The code was written based on the 2.6.19.2 scheduler. I could forward-port it to the latest kernel if there's interest and I can find time. :) Here's a description of the design: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/20/286 Thanks, tong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
