linux-kernel - Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

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Message-ID: <20070426041612.GD19966@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:12 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, caglar@...dus.org.tr,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>,
	Zach Carter <linux@...hcarter.com>,
	buddabrod <buddabrod@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:47:04PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>  - upstream fix: SysRq-T should show runnable tasks

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:29:27AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> BTW. can you send this upstream? It is very annoying how it currently works,
> and I've had more than one bug that required seeing runnable tasks in order
> to diagnose and fix...

There are other things that should go upstream separately. The
init/main.c comment fix for one. I'd even argue that scheduler classes
should be done separately from and prior to the specific cfs policy.


-- wli
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