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SubjectRe: [RFC] generalise scheduling classes


William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:57:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Class is struct sched_class in include/linux/sched.h
>>Default classes are built by arch_init_sched_classes in kernel/sched.c
>>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w23/
>>The patch in question is this one
>>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w23/broken-out/sched-domain.patch
>>
>
>There's a small terminological oddity in that "class" is usually meant
>to describe policies governing a task, and "domain" system partitions
>like the bits in your patch (I don't recall if they're meant to be
>logical or physical). e.g. usage elsewhere would say that there is an
>"interactive class", a "timesharing class", a "realtime class", and so
>on. Apart from that (and I suppose it's a minor concern), this appears
>relatively innocuous.
>

Yeah as you see from the name of the patch as well I got a bit muddled.
I think I'd better change it to sched_domain. Good point.


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