Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32 | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:12 -0500 |
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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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