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Linux: PlugSched, Pluggable CPU Schedulers

“Updating the pluggable scheduler patches for the 2.6.22 kernel,
Peter Williams noted, ‘probably the last one now that CFS is in the
main line.’ CFS author Ingo Molnar asked, ‘why is CFS in mainline a
problem? The CFS merge should make the life of development/test
patches like plugsched conceptually easier.’ Peter explained, ‘it
means a major rewrite of the plugsched interface and I’m not sure
that it’s worth it (if CFS works well). However, note that I did
say probably not definitely :-). I’ll play with it and see what
happens…'”

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