Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:12:58 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32 |
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of replacing > > the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low footprint > > scheduler. > > It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. To > get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they > wouldn't patch it in the first place.
BFS would have a chance to be merged as an alternate scheduler for specialized situations (such as embedded or desktop use).
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