[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Allow schedulers to be selectable through Kconfig
Ian Campbell writes: > I don't see this as contrary to your stated goals (e.g. ripping out all the > other schedulers), but I consider you to be within the expert camp for > wanting to do so (and having the chops to handle whatever pieces you find > yourselves with). I have no objections at all to allowing experts such as > yourselves to configure things and I applaud you for doing this in an > upstream way (it is the right thing to do). > > My concern is that while you rightly consider yourselves expert enough and > are building something for a specific (and AIUI targeted) use case many > normal users tend to think that if they are expert enough to find and flip > the switch then they are expert enough to deal with the consequences, when > they are not and/or they do not have the specific use case which the switch > was added to support i.e. they want common or garden Xen and we want that > to mean the same for everyone. > > It's those people (including general purpose distro maintainers) who I > think need to be strongly discouraged from messing with these options > because there will be a strong gravity towards them doing so. So, if I add a patch in a v3 of this series that introduces a CONFIG_EXPERT option and hides all of the scheduler options behind that, would that be acceptible? That is a proposal that was mentioned on this thread before. Is there any specific language that you would like to have around the CONFIG_EXPERT option? _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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