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Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:26:13 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Raistlin <raistlin@...ux.it>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>, oleg@...hat.com,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Darren Hart <darren@...art.com>,
	Johan Eker <johan.eker@...csson.com>,
	"p.faure" <p.faure@...tech.ch>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Claudio Scordino <claudio@...dence.eu.com>,
	michael trimarchi <trimarchi@...is.sssup.it>,
	Fabio Checconi <fabio@...dalf.sssup.it>,
	Tommaso Cucinotta <cucinotta@...up.it>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
	Nicola Manica <nicola.manica@...i.unitn.it>,
	Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tn.it>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...is.sssup.it>,
	Harald Gustafsson <hgu1972@...il.com>,
	paulmck <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/22] sched: add extended scheduling interface

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 18:28 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:27 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> > +struct sched_param_ex {
> > +       int sched_priority;
> > +       struct timespec sched_runtime;
> > +       struct timespec sched_deadline;
> > +       struct timespec sched_period;
> > +       unsigned int sched_flags;
> > +
> > +       struct timespec curr_runtime;
> > +       struct timespec used_runtime;
> > +       struct timespec curr_deadline;
> > +}; 
> 
> It would be better for alignment reasons to move the sched_flags field
> next to the sched_priority field.
> 
> I would suggest we add at least one more field so we can implement the
> stochastic model from UNC, sched_runtime_dev or sched_runtime_var or
> somesuch.

Oh, and their model has something akin to: sched_runtime_max, these
Gaussian bell curves go to inf. which is kinda bad for trying to compute
bounds.

 
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