On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:56:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:03:02PM -0700, Li, Tong N wrote: > > > > There are various metrics a scheduler may want to optimize for, such as > > throughput, response time, power consumption, fairness, and so on. Each > > of these may also be defined differently in different environments. Take > > fairness as an example. People have traditionally talked about it in > > terms of CPU time. Now it'd also make sense to talk about scheduling > > that enables fair usage of other types of resources, such as shared > > caches. Different metrics may require different scheduling policies. > > Are these real-life problems people need solutions for today or just > thoughts someone might want to try and write a paper about?
We are at the door step of multi core evolution. So its a bit of both. thanks, suresh - 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/
