Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] plugsched - update Kconfig-1 | Date | Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:30:36 +1100 |
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:10, Peter Williams wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:22, Peter Williams wrote: > >>Con Kolivas wrote: > >>>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:34, Peter Williams wrote: > >>>>1. Make the ability to select which schedulers are built in independent > >>>>of EMBEDDED. > >>>>2. Only offer builtin schedulers as choice for the default scheduler. > >>>>3. Only build in ingosched if PLUGSCHED is not configured. > >>> > >>>I disagree with 3. Surely people might want to build in only one > >>>scheduler that is not ingosched without other choices. > >> > >>Yes, and they would be able to do that by selecting PLUGSCHED and then > >>selecting only the scheduler that they want. But this then leads to the > >>observation that PLUGSCHED is probably makes things unnecessarily > >>complex and all that is required is a means to select the schedulers to > >>be built in and a choice of default (much like for the IO schedulers)? > > > > Indeed it may be better to remove the "plugsched" option entirely. Once > > patched in it's not like you are building the kernel without the > > plugsched infrastructure. Provided each extra scheduler does not increase > > the kernel size too much (and a test build with/without all schedulers > > should tell you that), it may be best to just have the scheduler choice > > in the top menu and only expose the "schedulers to build in" under > > embedded. > > I can't see why this should be restricted to embedded systems?
It's just convention that size options go in there; it's not really just for embedded systems.
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