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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:53:52 +0200
From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>
To: frank xu <bsdman@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: scheduler activations in FBSD5.0?
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Julian Elischer on 2000-11-16 (Thu) at 07:35:23 -0800:
> 
> frank xu wrote:
> > 
> > I heard rumor that Thomas E. Anderson's Scheduler Activations theory will
> > be implemented in FreeBSD 5.0 kernel, is it true?
> 
> Basically the coming FreeBSD threading system will be based on the work
> by
> Anderson. It may have some different aspects too.

FYI, a paper I recently came across detailing some of the work surrounding
the original implementation of scheduler activation in BSD/OS:

  http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/43570.html

-- V


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