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Message-Id: <200912120937.42943.kernel@kolivas.org> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:37:42 +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 02:12:58 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Con Kolivas wrote: > > 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. > > BFS would have a chance to be merged as an alternate scheduler for > specialized situations (such as embedded or desktop use). > Nice idea, but regardless of who else might want that, the mainline maintainers have already made it clear they do not. Thanks. -- -ck -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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