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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


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