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Message-Id: <1218472252.10800.107.camel@twins>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:30:52 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@...ux.it>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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 18:23 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to create struct sched_param2 with plenty of
> > padding to support future expansion and add
> > sys_sched_setscheduler2()/sys_sched_getscheduler2() to deal with this
> > new structure.
> And we will miss POSIX compliance. :-(
> Anyway, I agree the ABI issue this could raise are serious enough and, I
> repeat, I can't see any other solution too.
Well, a new version of glibc could use those to implement the posix
interface. Because as I understand it, glibc can break ABI on certain
version bumps.
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