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DateFri, 13 Apr 2007 14:35:48 -0700
SubjectRe: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
FromBill Huey (hui) <>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:21:10PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Yeah. Note that there are some subtle but crutial differences between 
> > PlugSched (which Con used, and which i opposed in the past) and this 
> > approach.
> > PlugSched cuts the interfaces at a high level in a monolithic way and 
> > introduces kernel/scheduler.c that uses one pluggable scheduler 
> > (represented via the 'scheduler' global template) at a time.
> 
> What I originally did did so for a good reason, which was that it was
> intended to support far more radical reorganizations, for instance,
> things that changed the per-cpu runqueue affairs for gang scheduling.
> I wrote a top-level driver that did support scheduling classes in a
> similar fashion, though it didn't survive others maintaining the patches.

Also, gang scheduling is needed to solve virtualization issues regarding
spinlocks in a guest image. You could potentally be spinning on a thread
that isn't currently running which, needless to say, is very bad.

bill

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