Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:42:42 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > i trust you kernel developers know what you are doing, but if scares me > a little bit, that some integral and living part like O(1) being ripped off > and being replaced by something new. There's something even scarier - O(1) being

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

>Having a framework for giving people the choice between different >solutions usually sounds good in theory, but in practice there's the >often underestimated high price of people using a different solution >instead of reporting a problem with one solution or people adding >features to only one

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > > > hm, why is CFS in mainline a problem? > > It means a major rewrite of the plugsched interface and I'm no

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > hm, why is CFS in mainline a problem? It means a major rewrite of the plugsched interface and I'm not sure that it's worth it (if CFS works well). However, note

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:56:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:03:02PM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > > > There are various metrics a scheduler may want to optimize for, such as > > throughput, response time, power consumption, fairness, and so on. Each > > of these may al

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

* Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. hm, why is CFS in mainline a problem? The CFS merge should make the life of development/test patches like plugsched conceptually easier. (it will certainly cause a lot of churn, but that's

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:03:02PM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > There are various metrics a scheduler may want to optimize for, such as > throughput, response time, power consumption, fairness, and so on. Each > of these may also be defined differently in different environments. Take > fairness as

RE: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

> -Original Message- > From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 4:46 PM > To: Li, Tong N > Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22 > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:47:51AM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:17, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > > Peter Williams wrote: > > >> > > >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > > > > > What do you mean? A pluggable scheduler framework is indispensible

RE: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

> On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:17, Al Boldi wrote: > > > Peter Williams wrote: > >> > >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > > > What do you mean? A pluggable scheduler framework is indispensible even > in > > the presence of CFS or SD. > > Indeed, and I hope it gets m

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:17, Al Boldi wrote: > Peter Williams wrote: >> >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > What do you mean? A pluggable scheduler framework is indispensible even in > the presence of CFS or SD. Indeed, and I hope it gets merged, giving people

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

Peter Williams wrote: > > Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. What do you mean? A pluggable scheduler framework is indispensible even in the presence of CFS or SD. > A patch for 2.6.22 is available at: > >

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. A patch for 2.6.22 is available at: Very Brief Documentation: You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish to boot with a scheduler oth