linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/1][PATCH] POSIX SCHED_SPORADIC implementation for tasks and groups

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Message-Id: <1218464748.6450.34.camel@Palanthas>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:25:48 +0200
From:	Dario Faggioli <raistlin@...ux.it>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1][PATCH] POSIX SCHED_SPORADIC implementation for tasks
	and groups

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 07:11 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I'm not commenting on the code or usefulness of ht features.  I just
> want to point out a problem.
Ok...

> The authors of that POSIX extension unfortunately decided to extend the
> sched_param structure.  If you look at the definition of that structure
> Linux uses you'll see that there is no place for this.  I.e., any
> implementation of that feature following the POSIX spec to the letter
> will introduce major headache in the form of binary incompatibility.
Yeah, I'm aware of that, as you can see in the comments inside the patch
(has the mail with the patch arrived? It seems no to me :-().

> In case the features is useful enough (I actually always thought it
> isn't an have actually proposed to remove it again from POSIX)
Uao... Thanks for your support! :-P

> then I
> would rather prefer to not claim support for this feature in the POSIX
> way.  One could still implement it as described.  But change the
> interface to not require the sched_param change.
It could be done like this, I agree, for sure.

I would be sorry if we implemented this but we still miss POSIX
support... But I can't imagine any other solution that is not going
cause ABI issues too.

Anyway, thanks a lot for replying.
Dario

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