linux-kernel - Re: Dynamically determine if kernel includes CFS Scheduler

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Message-ID: <20090306225312.GA25593@silver.sucs.org>
Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:53:12 +0000
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"lkml, " <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dynamically determine if kernel includes CFS Scheduler

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:44:30PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> I've received an internal request for a means to determine at run-time 
> if the CFS scheduler is included in the running kernel.  Looking through 
> the git commit log and the /proc/sys/kernel filesystem, I think I see 
> two approaches:

Sounds dangerous (you are dependent on scheduler beahviour) but if it
exists you could check /proc/config.gz (or the config file in the /boot
directory)...

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