Re: [RFC][PATCH] SCHED_EDF scheduling class

[Claudio Scordino]

Peter Zijlstra ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:58 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> > > This implementation is part of a FP7 European project called ACTORS,
> > > and financially supported by the European commission
> > > (see http://www.actors-project.eu).
> > >
> > > The involved partners (which include Ericsson Research, Evidence Srl,
> > > AKAtech) strongly believe that a general-purpose operating system like
> > > Linux should provide a standard real-time scheduling policy (like the
> > > one implemented in this patch) still allowing to schedule non-real-time
> > > tasks in the usual way.
> > Hi Peter, hi all,
> >
> >       note that the request of having an EDF scheduling class integrated 
> > in the mainline kernel does not come from academy, but comes from industry.
>
> Yeah, I know, there's lots of interest in having a deadline scheduler.
>
> One of the things we'll have to look at is removing all the EDF
> assumptions from it.
>
> I think we'll be wanting to do something like s/EDF/DEADLINE/
> s/edf/deadline/ etc. on the code base to begin with.

This is easy: we can give it whatever name you want :)

Are you suggesting to use "SCHED_DEADLINE" ?

Cheers,

                Claudio

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