linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

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Message-ID: <4623B0C2.7080806@nortel.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:22:10 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>
CC:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair
 Scheduler [CFS]

Peter Williams wrote:

> To my mind scheduling 
> and load balancing are orthogonal and keeping them that way simplifies 
> things.

Scuse me if I jump in here, but doesn't the load balancer need some way 
to figure out a) when to run, and b) which tasks to pull and where to 
push them?

I suppose you could abstract this into a per-scheduler API, but to me at 
least these are the hard parts of the load balancer...

Chris
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