Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:56:58 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, efault@gmx.de,
       kernel@kolivas.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
       ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       pwil3058@bigpond.net.au, tingy@cs.umass.edu, tong.n.li@intel.com,
       wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com, balbir@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Introduce struct sched_entity and struct lrq
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > 
> > struct sched_entity
> >         stores essential attributes/execution-history used by CFS core
> >         to drive fairness between 'schedulable entities' (tasks, users etc)
> 
> Wouldn't this be sensible to integrate into CFS _regardless_ of 
> anything else?

yeah, that's what i asked Srivatsa to do, and his currently patchset 
largely achieves that. I'm looking now into applying the core bits and 
checking that it's in essence a NOP when this isnt used. (that makes the 
later merging of group fairness and container scheduling a lot less 
contentious)

	Ingo
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