Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266250AbUJHXyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:54:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266252AbUJHXyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:54:18 -0400 Received: from smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.92]:63666 "HELO smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266250AbUJHXyG (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:54:06 -0400 Message-ID: <416727C6.5000000@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:50:30 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Focht CC: colpatch@us.ibm.com, LSE Tech , Paul Jackson , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andrew Morton , ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML , simon.derr@bull.net, frankeh@watson.ibm.com Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC PATCH] scheduler: Dynamic sched_domains References: <1097110266.4907.187.camel@arrakis> <41666E90.2000208@yahoo.com.au> <1097261691.5650.23.camel@arrakis> <200410090113.40589.efocht@hpce.nec.com> In-Reply-To: <200410090113.40589.efocht@hpce.nec.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: 859 Lines: 20 Erich Focht wrote: >>I personally like the hierarchical idea. Machine topologies tend to >>look tree-like, and every useful sched_domain layout I've ever seen has >>been tree-like. I think our interface should match that. > > > I like the hierarchical idea, too. The natural way to build it would > be by starting from the cpus and going up. This tree stands on its > leafs... and I'm not sure how to express that in a filesystem. > Why would you ever want to play around with the internals of the thing though? Provided you have a way to create exclusive sets of CPUs, when would you care about doing more? - 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/