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SubjectRe: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32
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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.
>
The advantage would be that the same kernel source could then be built into a
custom version with only the config changed.Since building with various configs
is hardly unusual it would save some carrying of multiple sources, for those who
build for several uses already.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot



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