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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:16:10 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_4bsd.c
Message-ID:  <200611120716.10773.davidxu@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061112031308.I69769@delplex.bde.org>
References:  <200611111311.kABDBVNH042993@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061112031308.I69769@delplex.bde.org>

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On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:22, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, David Xu wrote:
> > davidxu     2006-11-11 13:11:30 UTC
> >
> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/kern             sched_4bsd.c
> >  Log:
> >  Unbreak userland priority inheriting in NO_KSE case.
>
> Is this what made the non-KSE case unusable?  At least with the load
> average bug fixed, it gave very unfair scheduling, and would only start
> about 4 concurrent hog processes on a 2-way SMP system.
>
> Improvements in some benchmarks may have depended on the bugs.  Maybe
> a random load average is optimal for some loads :-).
>
> Bruce

No, this change is unrelated, the bug is in kern_idle.c, John should use
mi_switch(), not the choosethread(), otherwise the loadavg is not
maintianed correctly.

David Xu



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