Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32 | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:42 +1100 |
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:12:58 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of > > > replacing the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low > > > footprint scheduler. > > > > It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. > > To get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they > > wouldn't patch it in the first place. > > BFS would have a chance to be merged as an alternate scheduler for > specialized situations (such as embedded or desktop use). >
Nice idea, but regardless of who else might want that, the mainline maintainers have already made it clear they do not.
Thanks. -- -ck
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