Re: [PATCH] sched: Support compiling out real-time scheduling withREALTIME_SCHED.

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:50 -0700, Trevor Brandt wrote:

> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 3f42cd6..768dc76 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ config IRQ_WORK
>  	bool
>  	depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
>  
> +config REALTIME_SCHED
> +	bool "Realtime Scheduler" if EXPERT
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  This option enables support for the realtime scheduler and the
> +	  corresponding scheduling classes SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR.
> +
>  menu "General setup"
>  
>  config EXPERIMENTAL

If you inverted that, it could be a proper default n new feature [1].

However, if weight loss is the goal, why not go whole hog, and create
sched/thin.c containing no lard... or just integrate an existing thin
scheduler as a config option?  Whole body replacement is a very radical
diet, but somehow seems less so than chopping off fingers and toes.

-Mike

(that SMP could select to greatly simplify RT)

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