RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-21 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Paraphrasing Jens Axboe: > I don't think you can compare [plugsched with the plugio framework]. > Yes they are both schedulers, but that's about where the 'similarity' > stops. The CPU scheduler must be really fast, overhead must be kept > to a minimum. For a disk scheduler, we can affort to burn

RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-21 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Paraphrasing Jens Axboe: I don't think you can compare [plugsched with the plugio framework]. Yes they are both schedulers, but that's about where the 'similarity' stops. The CPU scheduler must be really fast, overhead must be kept to a minimum. For a disk scheduler, we can affort to burn cpu

RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-20 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Hi Peter, > I'm hoping that the CKRM folks will send me a patch to add their > scheduler to plugsched :-) They are planning to release a patch against 2.6.10. But their patch wont stand alone against 2.6.10 and so it might be difficult for you to integrate their code into a scheduler for

RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-20 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Peter, thank you for maintaining Con's plugsched code in light of Linus' and Ingo's prior objections to this idea. On the one hand, I partially agree with Linus's prior views that when there is only one scheduler that the rest of the world + dog will focus on making it better. On the other hand,

RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-20 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Peter, thank you for maintaining Con's plugsched code in light of Linus' and Ingo's prior objections to this idea. On the one hand, I partially agree with LinusIngo's prior views that when there is only one scheduler that the rest of the world + dog will focus on making it better. On the other

RE: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] plugsched-2.0 patches ...

2005-01-20 Thread Marc E. Fiuczynski
Hi Peter, I'm hoping that the CKRM folks will send me a patch to add their scheduler to plugsched :-) They are planning to release a patch against 2.6.10. But their patch wont stand alone against 2.6.10 and so it might be difficult for you to integrate their code into a scheduler for