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David Weinehall wrote: > Would it be viable to introduce several different schedulers to chose from > in the v2.5 development-tree, as a compile-time option. This way we would > solve most of the considerations of workstation vs webserver vs > database-server vs ftpserver etc. > > I haven't got a clue if this is technically possible (well, it IS > possible, but the question is whether it's reasonable, or if it would > involve rewriting half the kernel to introduce such a change...), and if > it is anything that would be interesting. > > Maybe this could help the people who need real-time systems too, by > allowing them to compile the kernel with a real-time scheduler. > > Of course, a modular, hot-swappable scheduler would be best, but I figure > that'd be pretty awkward to program. Or? > I'd have to imagine that compile time choice should be fairly simple. Boot-time selection might be a bit harder, and hot-swappable would be interesting especially if we have to completely alter the data structure that we use for it. But I think all of it is doable - whether we want to or not, I don't know. - Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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