William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Comments on which directions you'd like this to go in these respects >> would be appreciated, as I regard you as the current "project owner."
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > I'd do scan through LKML from about 18 months ago looking for mention of > runtime configurable version of plugsched. Some students at a > university (in Germany, I think) posted some patches adding this feature > to plugsched around about then. Excellent. I'll go hunting for that. On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > I never added them to plugsched proper as I knew (from previous > experience when the company I worked for posted patches with similar > functionality) that Linux would like this idea less than he did the > current plugsched mechanism. Odd how the requirements ended up including that. Fickleness abounds. If only we knew up-front what the end would be. On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > Unfortunately, my own cache of the relevant e-mails got overwritten > during a Fedora Core upgrade (I've since moved /var onto a separate > drive to avoid a repetition) or I would dig them out and send them to > you. I'd provided with copies of the company's patches to use as a > guide to how to overcome the problems associated with changing > schedulers on a running system (a few non trivial locking issues pop up). > Maybe if one of the students still reads LKML he will provide a pointer. I was tempted to restart from scratch given Ingo's comments, but I reconsidered and I'll be working with your code (and the German students' as well). If everything has to change, so be it, but it'll still be a derived work. It would be ignoring precedent and failure to properly attribute if I did otherwise. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
