Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/22] sched: add extended scheduling interface

From: Raistlin
Date: Fri Nov 12 2010 - 14:19:29 EST


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 11:52 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > No, some of the bits in 18/22 come near, but I'd prefer not to add such
> > things until we've got a convincing use-case.
>
> I'm fine with that, but I would like to know if the ABI would be able to
> add such an extension in the future if we find a convincing use-case.
>
Scared about ABIs' stability eh? :-PP

BTW, in this case everything should be fine, since the very exact
behaviour you described was triggered by a (couple of) flag(s), which
can be added and dealt with during sched_setscheduler2() at any time.

As Peter was saying, see patch 18 for details.

Thanks,
Dario

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