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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: ithread priority question...
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hmmmm so, how do we give them a priority that is not in the same range a
user processes, and separate from each other when the scheduler
may not use run queues as seen in sched_4bsd.?

using the magic number RQ_PPQ is not "kosher".
with a different scheduler that may not exist.


On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Bosko Milekic wrote:

> 
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> ...
> >> That was the intention.  One question though, if the ithreads aren't on the
> >> system run queues then which run queues are they on?
> >
> >aren't they run from the interupt?
> 
>   Not always.  They have to be put on a runqueue if they block on a
>   mutex, say.
> 
>   -Bosko
> 
>