Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752900AbZIXQIK (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752612AbZIXQIJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:09 -0400 Received: from ms01.sssup.it ([193.205.80.99]:43293 "EHLO sssup.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752622AbZIXQII (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4ABB9964.7050104@evidence.eu.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:04 +0200 From: Claudio Scordino User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Raistlin , michael@evidence.eu.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, johan.eker@ericsson.com, p.faure@akatech.ch, Fabio Checconi , Dhaval Giani , Steven Rostedt , Tommaso Cucinotta Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] SCHED_EDF scheduling class References: <1253615424.20345.76.camel@Palantir> <4AB8BBEF.2040604@evidence.eu.com> <1253623106.4452.9.camel@laptop> In-Reply-To: <1253623106.4452.9.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1442 Lines: 37 Peter Zijlstra ha scritto: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:58 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: >>> This implementation is part of a FP7 European project called ACTORS, >>> and financially supported by the European commission >>> (see http://www.actors-project.eu). >>> >>> The involved partners (which include Ericsson Research, Evidence Srl, >>> AKAtech) strongly believe that a general-purpose operating system like >>> Linux should provide a standard real-time scheduling policy (like the >>> one implemented in this patch) still allowing to schedule non-real-time >>> tasks in the usual way. >> Hi Peter, hi all, >> >> note that the request of having an EDF scheduling class integrated >> in the mainline kernel does not come from academy, but comes from industry. > > Yeah, I know, there's lots of interest in having a deadline scheduler. > > One of the things we'll have to look at is removing all the EDF > assumptions from it. > > I think we'll be wanting to do something like s/EDF/DEADLINE/ > s/edf/deadline/ etc. on the code base to begin with. This is easy: we can give it whatever name you want :) Are you suggesting to use "SCHED_DEADLINE" ? Cheers, Claudio -- 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/