linux-kernel - Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32

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Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:51 +1100
From:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of replacing
> the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low footprint
> scheduler.
> 

It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. To 
get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they 
wouldn't patch it in the first place.

Thanks,
-- 
-ck
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