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Date:	Thu, 3 May 2007 08:53:47 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Tong N. Li" <tong.n.li@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:29:32PM +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
>> What are your thoughts/plans concerning merging CFS into mainline ? Is
>> it a bit premature to get it into 2.6.22 ? I remember Linus was ok to
>> change the default scheduler rapidly (the discussion was about sd at
>> that time) to get more testing than in -mm.

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:23:18PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> And what about group scheduling extensions? Do you have plans to work on
> it? I was begining to work on a prototype to do group scheduling based
> on CFS, basically on the lines of what you and Linus had outlined
> earlier:
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/18/271
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/18/244

Tong Li's Trio scheduler does a bit of this, though it doesn't seem to
have the mindshare cfs seems to have acquired.

The hyperlink seems to have broken, though:
	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~tongli/linux/linux-2.6.19.2-trio.patch


-- wli
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