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Subject: Re: switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)
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On 12/16/2011 13:40, Michel Talon wrote:
> Adrian Chadd said:
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Can someone load a kernel module dynamically at boot-time?
>> 
>> Ie, instead of compiling it in, can 4bsd/ule be loaded as a KLD at 
>> boot-time, so the user can just change by rebooting?
>> 
>> That may be an acceptable solution for now.
> 
> As Luigi explained, the problem is not to have code for both
> schedulers residing in the kernel, the problem is to migrate
> processes from one scheduler to the other.

I think dynamically switching schedulers on a running system and loading
one or the other at boot time are different problems, are they not?


Doug

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