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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:11:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: potentially simpler approach than scheduler activations.
Message-ID:  <20001118141116.E70679@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001117094543.A76006@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:45:43AM -0800
References:  <20001116140506.Q830@fw.wintelcom.net> <14868.39578.928654.157924@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001117094543.A76006@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Friday, 17 November 2000 at  9:45:43 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>>> I know that by applying these band-aids we aren't completely
>>> solving every problem and as new interfaces pop-up we might
>>> have to apply more band-aids to libc_r, but I think this
>>> might get us past the point of system that breaks down on
>>> disk IO.
>>
>> This sounds like a really good idea to me, as long as it is qualified
>> as an interum solution until KSE is ready and not a competitor to it.
>
> Also KSE's will never be back ported to RELENG_4.  Maybe some of these
> ideas can be.

I see this as diluting the effort.  Once we have a bandaid, we'll be
less concerned about doing the right thing.  And deliberately
introducing different semantics in RELENG_4 seems not to be the Right
Thing To Do.

Greg 
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