Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262310AbTKXCT6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:19:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262328AbTKXCT6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:19:58 -0500 Received: from mail-05.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.37]:16773 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262310AbTKXCT5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:19:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3FC16AC8.4030400@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:19:52 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: linux-kernel , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , jbarnes@sgi.com, efocht@hpce.nec.com, John Hawkes , wookie@osdl.org Subject: Re: [RFC] generalise scheduling classes References: <20031118173607.GA88556@colin2.muc.de> <20031118235710.GA10075@colin2.muc.de> <3FBAF84B.3050203@cyberone.com.au> <501330000.1069443756@flay> <3FBF099F.8070403@cyberone.com.au> <1010800000.1069532100@[10.10.2.4]> <3FC01817.3090705@cyberone.com.au> <3FC0A0C2.90800@cyberone.com.au> <20031123213817.GU22764@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20031123213817.GU22764@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 31 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:57:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Class is struct sched_class in include/linux/sched.h >>Default classes are built by arch_init_sched_classes in kernel/sched.c >>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w23/ >>The patch in question is this one >>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w23/broken-out/sched-domain.patch >> > >There's a small terminological oddity in that "class" is usually meant >to describe policies governing a task, and "domain" system partitions >like the bits in your patch (I don't recall if they're meant to be >logical or physical). e.g. usage elsewhere would say that there is an >"interactive class", a "timesharing class", a "realtime class", and so >on. Apart from that (and I suppose it's a minor concern), this appears >relatively innocuous. > Yeah as you see from the name of the patch as well I got a bit muddled. I think I'd better change it to sched_domain. Good point. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/