Re: Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO (preliminary)

From: Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 23:26:13 EST


On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, David Weinehall wrote:

[snip]
> W If possible, make the scheduler-code modular, thus making it
> possible for the root-user to switch scheduler for different
> occasions

Unfortunatly, the secedular code is VERY cache and performance
sensitive. You can't have any indirection on it or it's datasets.

The only way to accomplish what you suggest is with polymorphic
code.. Yuck. I doubt it's worth it.

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