Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:04:08 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> Cc: re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Scheduler change Message-ID: <413E3058.50708@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <1094593528.845.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org> References: <413E20FC.80801@samsco.org> <1094593528.845.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org>
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Andreas Kohn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 22:58, Scott Long wrote: > >>All, >> >>In the interest of getting RELENG_5 stable and ready for 5.3, we are >>going to switch the scheduler in 6-CURRENT from SCHED_ULE to SCHED_4BSD. > > Wouldn't it make more sense to only switch in RELENG_5, and leave it as > default in HEAD? > Or would it complicate testing and current work too much? > > Regards, > Andreas > > (This questions basically comes from an interest in good QA and RE > practices) > We are trying to keep HEAD as a good test-bed for future RELENG_5 fixes. It's hard to get broad testing of scheduler related things if HEAD and RELENG_5 are using different schedulers. We also want to see HEAD be stable enough to develop and test non-scheduler related things too. Scott
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