From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030801AbXDRCb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:31:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031317AbXDRCb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:31:59 -0400 Received: from omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.93.195]:53413 "EHLO omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030801AbXDRCb6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:31:58 -0400 Message-ID: <46258311.2000909@bigpond.net.au> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:31:45 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS] References: <46241677.7060909@bigpond.net.au> <20070417025704.GM8915@holomorphy.com> <462445EC.1060306@bigpond.net.au> <20070417053147.GN8915@holomorphy.com> <46246A7C.8050501@bigpond.net.au> <20070417064109.GP8915@holomorphy.com> <46247E86.5090706@bigpond.net.au> <20070417104141.GV8915@holomorphy.com> <4624D027.4040500@bigpond.net.au> <462565EF.4030200@bigpond.net.au> <20070418020329.GS2986@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20070418020329.GS2986@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com from [58.164.138.40] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:31:50 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Peter Williams wrote: >>> William Lee Irwin III wrote: >>>> I was tempted to restart from scratch given Ingo's comments, but I >>>> reconsidered and I'll be working with your code (and the German >>>> students' as well). If everything has to change, so be it, but it'll >>>> still be a derived work. It would be ignoring precedent and failure to >>>> properly attribute if I did otherwise. >>> I can give you a patch (or set of patches) against the latest git >>> vanilla kernel version if that would help. There have been changes to >>> the vanilla scheduler code since 2.6.20 so the latest patch on >>> sourceforge won't apply cleanly. I've found that implementing this as a >>> series of patches rather than one big patch makes it easier fro me to >>> cope with changes to the underlying code. > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:27:27AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote: >> I've just placed a single patch for plugsched against 2.6.21-rc7 updated >> to Linus's git tree as of an hour or two ago on sourceforge: >> >> This should at least enable you to get it to apply cleanly to the latest >> kernel sources. Let me know if you'd also like this as a quilt/mq >> friendly patch series? > > A quilt-friendly series would be most excellent if you could arrange it. Done: Just untar this in the base directory of your Linux kernel source and Bob's your uncle. Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce