Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:45:24 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>, peterz@infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it>
Subject: Re: On the unlikely off-chance that this is new news
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:28:08PM +0200, luca abeni wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:28:02 +0100
> Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > On 12/04/17 08:15, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > On the unlikely off-chance that this is new news...
> > >   
> > 
> > It is actually new news for me (it might be still unlikely for Peter,
> > Luca and Tommaso, that I Cc-ed).
> 
> I did not know about this, thanks for sharing! The abstract looks
> interesting :)
> I still have to read the thesis, but at a first glance it looks like
> some kind of adaptive scheduling framework... Right?

They do have a specific algorithm, and I am not sure which of the
framework or the algorithm deserves the closest focus.  My tendency
is to look at the algorithm.  Any slob can create a framework!
(Getting everyone else to use it, now -that- is the trick.)

							Thanx, Paul

> 				Luca
> 
> 
> > 
> > > A Hannes Weisbach of TU Dresden published this masters thesis on
> > > quasi-real-time scheduling:
> > > 
> > > 	http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/weisbach-master.pdf
> > > 
> > > If you have come across this, I would be interested in your
> > > thoughts. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer. Definitely interesting Easter break reading.
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > - Juri
>