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SubjectRe: Dynamically determine if kernel includes CFS Scheduler
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.

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Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team


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