Re: BFS v0.311 CPU scheduler for 2.6.32

[Bill Davidsen]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of replacing
> > the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low footprint
> > scheduler.
>
> It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. To 
> get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they 
> wouldn't patch it in the first place.
The advantage would be that the same kernel source could then be built into a 
custom version with only the config changed.Since building with various configs 
is hardly unusual it would save some carrying of multiple sources, for those who 
build for several uses already.

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