2005-12-13 11:14:14

by Maciej Sołtysiak

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Subject: Re[2]: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 :-)

Hello Con,

Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 6:52:09 AM, you wrote:
> I missed this announcement (been on leave for a while). This SCHED_BATCH
> implementation is by Ingo and it it is not "idle" scheduling as I have
> implemented in the staircase scheduler. This is just to restrict a task to
> not having any interactive bonus at any stage and to have predictable
> scheduling behaviour I guess.
Thanks a lot. That's good anyway.

If I understand correctly, if Ingo's version gets merged with linus' tree
your implementions of SCHED_BATCH in -ck will be replacing the one from Ingo.

A silly question. Is SCHED_BATCH-kind-of-thing a standard in Unices or general
operating system engineering know-how? Or is this concept only available for
Linux?

--
Maciej