linux-kernel - Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32

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Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:42 +1100
From:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:12:58 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, 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.
> 
> BFS would have a chance to be merged as an alternate scheduler for
> specialized situations (such as embedded or desktop use).
> 

Nice idea, but regardless of who else might want that, the mainline 
maintainers have already made it clear they do not.

Thanks.
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