Hi all,
As part of our investigations into the Linux scheduler we've interacted with Juri Lelli at the University of Pisa (cc'ed) who is part of a group that is working on a DEADLINE scheduler[1] for Linux[2].
While we're coming at this from a power managment angle[3], I suspect that LEG and LNG already have real-world usecases that would benefit from deadline scheduler found in other RTOSes.
So I think it makes sense to merge Juri's tree into linux-linaro going forward to allow easier experimentation. Does LEG and LNG have any interest in this at this point?
Juri has expressed an interest in maintaining a current branch of the code that could be merged into our monthly release. In return, real world usecases will improve his chances of getting the code merged into mainline.
Regards, Amit
[1] http://retis.sssup.it/?q=node/35 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/11/373 [3] Mostly involving discussions at this point, no real engineering effort invested yet