Re: [RFC PATCH] sched_domains: Make SD_NODE_INIT per-arch

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 01:17:30 EST


--Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote (on Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:23:12 -0700):

> Matthew Dobson <colpatch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to try to get this in before then, unless this will really
>> make things difficult for you.
>
> It's about three weeks late for 2.6.9. I already have a string of CPU
> scheduler patches awaiting the 2.6.10 stream and once we're at -rc2 we
> really should only be looking at bugfixes.

Yup, seems a bit late for that, but early 2.6.10 would be nice if possible?

> Grumble, mutter.. it looks like one of those "if it compiled, it works"
> things. Problem is, any time anyone touches that particular piece of the
> kernel, half the architectures stop compiing.

I tested it - worked for me ;-)

This is the first step to getting the arches to actually use the flexibility
we had, and stop Andi complaining the scheduler is tuned for one arch rather
than another ;-) These params definitely need to be per arch/subarch, and
probably some other ones too, but this seems like a good start.

M.

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