Re: Gang Scheduling in linux

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:59:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote:

> For this it seems sufficient to simply STOP apps on a larger granularity
> and have that done through a user level daemon. The kernel scheduler
> simply schedules the runnable threads that given the U-Sched would
> always amount to a limited number of threads/tasks.

yep, this is my suggestion as well. Any reason to do gang scheduling in
the scheduler and not via a userspace daemon that stops/resumes (and
binds) managed tasks explicitly?

Ingo

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