Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:04 +0200 | From | Claudio Scordino <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] SCHED_EDF scheduling class |
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Peter Zijlstra ha scritto: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:58 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: >>> This implementation is part of a FP7 European project called ACTORS, >>> and financially supported by the European commission >>> (see http://www.actors-project.eu). >>> >>> The involved partners (which include Ericsson Research, Evidence Srl, >>> AKAtech) strongly believe that a general-purpose operating system like >>> Linux should provide a standard real-time scheduling policy (like the >>> one implemented in this patch) still allowing to schedule non-real-time >>> tasks in the usual way. >> Hi Peter, hi all, >> >> note that the request of having an EDF scheduling class integrated >> in the mainline kernel does not come from academy, but comes from industry. > > Yeah, I know, there's lots of interest in having a deadline scheduler. > > One of the things we'll have to look at is removing all the EDF > assumptions from it. > > I think we'll be wanting to do something like s/EDF/DEADLINE/ > s/edf/deadline/ etc. on the code base to begin with.
This is easy: we can give it whatever name you want :)
Are you suggesting to use "SCHED_DEADLINE" ?
Cheers,
Claudio
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