> On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:17, Al Boldi wrote: > > > Peter Williams wrote: > >> > >> Probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line :-(. > > > > What do you mean? A pluggable scheduler framework is indispensible even > in > > the presence of CFS or SD. > > Indeed, and I hope it gets merged, giving people the chance to test out > different schedulers easily, without having to do patching, de-patching, > re-patching and blah blah blah. >
Yes, such a framework would be invaluable, especially given that scheduling often has conflicting goals and different workloads have different requirements. No single solution fits all. > But somehow I doubt it'll get merged now. My bet is that it won't even be > taken into consideration, for the same reasons that ultimately drove Con > Kolivas to giving up on development of SD. And if it's so, chances are > people will get tired of trying to get it merged. :/ > > >> A patch for 2.6.22 is available at: > >> > >> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cpuse/plugsched-6.5.1-for- > 2.6.22.patch> > >> > >> Very Brief Documentation: > >> > >> You can select a default scheduler at kernel build time. If you wish > to > >> boot with a scheduler other than the default it can be selected at boot > >> time by adding: > >> > >> cpusched=<scheduler> > >> > >> to the boot command line where <scheduler> is one of: ingosched, > >> ingo_ll, nicksched, staircase, spa_no_frills, spa_ws, spa_svr, spa_ebs > >> or zaphod. If you don't change the default when you build the kernel > >> the default scheduler will be ingosched (which is the normal scheduler). > > > > Can't PlugSched include CFS and SD? > > If I read the announcement correctly, those are the ones referred to as > 'ingosched' and 'staircase' :) > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta > > - > 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/ - 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/
