[Cbe-oss-dev] spusched: timeslicing

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:34:21PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> One approach that is currently under discussion are 'deferrable timers',
> see http://lwn.net/Articles/228143/.

I don't think this is suitable for the spu scheduler.  We really want
a stable peirodic intervall timer when we overcommit spus, and if we
don't we just want to stop the timer completely.  (the latter part isn't
in CVS yet, I'm playing around with some schemes for it currently)