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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.4 for 2.6.18-rc2
Al Boldi wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>> Al Boldi wrote:
>>> Peter Williams wrote:
>>>> Al Boldi wrote:
>>>>> Peter Williams wrote:
>>>>>> Al Boldi wrote:
>> [bits deleted]
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>>>>>>> It may be really great, to allow schedulers perPid parent, thus
>>>>>>> allowing the stacking of different scheduler semantics. This could
>>>>>>> aid flexibility a lot.
>>>>>> I'm don't understand what you mean here. Could you elaborate?
>>>>> i.e: Boot the kernel with spa_no_frills, then start X with spa_ws.
>>>> It's probably not a good idea to have different schedulers managing the
>>>> same resource. The way to do different scheduling per process is to
>>>> use the scheduling policy mechanism i.e. SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, etc.
>>>> (possibly extended) within each scheduler. On the other hand, on an
>>>> SMP system, having a different scheduler on each run queue (or sub set
>>>> of queues) might be interesting :-).
>>> What's wrong with multiple run-queues on UP?
>> A really high likelihood of starvation of some tasks.
>
> Maybe you are thinking of running independent run-queues, in which case it
> would probably be unwise to run multiple RQs on a single CPU.

No. I'm thinking about different schedulers on a single run queue. I
don't think that it's a good idea.

>
> But I was more thinking of a run-queue of run-queues, with the masterRQ
> scheduling slaveRQs, each RQ possible running its own scheduling semantic.

I think that you need to think a bit harder about the consequences of
such a system. The word "chaos" springs to mind.

Peter
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