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    [PATCH] documentation for the new scheduler · 49610fe2
    Robert Love authored
    This adds documentation about the O(1) scheduler to Documentation/.  The
    new scheduler is complicated and providing future scheduler hackers some
    background seems a Good Thing to me.
    
    Specifically:
    
    - add Documentation/sched-coding.txt: an overview of the functions,
      magic numbers, and variables in the scheduler as well as (most
      importantly) a review of the locking semantics.
    
    - add Documentation/sched-design.txt: an edited version of Ingo's
      initial email to lkml about his scheduler.  Goes over the design,
      implementation, and goals of the scheduler.  I tried to edit it where
      needed to bring it in line with the scheduler as it is today.
    
    - modify kernel/sched.c: update your copyright and add a change entry
      for the new scheduler.
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