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A4 - handing in

On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Mark Aiken wrote:

>       BTW, I've gotten a number of questions about "what do I hand in". One
> person asked (rightly) whether they should hand in a sched.c with the weight
> function changed to 1/5, another sched.c with the weight changed to 1/2,
> etc, etc, and yet another one that chooses the median goodness function.
> 
>       Maybe you could send mail with a definitive answer? ;-)

As a general rule: enough that your experiment can be reproduced. This
involves both a description in the report detailed enough and code
which can be used (no one-command-liner perl scripts ;-)

In particular, if the modifications to the kernel code are not absolutely
trivial, you should hand in the modified source files. 

For the example you mention, a sched.c with something like

#ifdef ONE_FIFTH
#define wgt_factor (1/5)
#endif
#ifdef ONE_HALF
#define wgt_factor (1/2)
#endif

etc etc

Ciao
Franco