Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:17:47 -0800 | From | Darren Hart <> | Subject | Re: Dynamically determine if kernel includes CFS Scheduler |
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Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:01:14PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: >> So I am of course in agreement with both you and Peter. In this case, >> the development team of an existing product is trying to move away from >> heavy use of sched_yield(), and the CFS scheduler provides some > > Hmm. The only thing I'll say about checking kernel versions is: do some > tests/checks with the different enterprise distro kernels. I don't think > they tend to do big backports any more but if they have that kernel > version check could become tricky...
Right, excellent point. Regardless of how thing are right now, relying on the kernel revision is a bad idea for this reason.
-- Darren Hart IBM Linux Technology Center Real-Time Linux Team
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