[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 6/7] Changed slice to budget in libxc for the sedf scheduler
On ven, 2014-07-11 at 12:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 01:11 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote: > > 'budget' is certainly the most used term in real-time literature and > > research, yes, but slice is not that terrible after all. I think it does > > get the point across about how one should interpret and use the > > parameter itself. > > > > If we were doing a new scheduler, I think I also would pick budget as > > the name for this param. If we are to modify SEDF, I honestly think we > > can live with 'slice'. > > Have the semantics changed though? If yes then a new name is preferable. > They're basically synonyms, and the new algorithm uses this budget exactly as current SEDF use slice, no semantic change. And in fact this patch basically is s/slice/budget/g all over the file. Budget is more widely used and recognized in the real-time literature, but that's it. Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) Attachment:
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