Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:48:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: julian@whistle.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dg@root.com, dyson@iquest.net, aron@cs.rice.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scheduling queues in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199904091448.JAA08463@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199904090921.FAA23160@hda.hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Apr 9, 99 05:21:14 am"
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> > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > I think it would be useful for 'idle' priority processes, but I agree > > > that it would not be useful for any sort of true 'realtime' ( i.e. > > > when there is more then one realtime process ). But the existing > > > realtime scheduler isn't useful for true realtime either since there > > > are no scheduling primitives. > > > > Before getting too excited by the possibility of a code massacre.. > > you should check with Peter Dufault. > > I believe some people are using this in production and I have even done so > > myself at times. > > > > One tends to hardly ever need 32 queues in all three categories > > (well I haven't) but it's be a bummer to lose the functionality > > entirely. > > > > As I said.. Please make sure you here from Peter D before you act as he's > > involved in this sort of thing.. > > > I'm pointing this out to explain why I never committed those patches, > which I thought were OK, as I know some folks want them badly: > I didn't see everything that you did, but everything that I saw, I liked... just FWIW. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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