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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:37:44 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ULE nice behavior fixed.
Message-ID:  <20030403132059.V29067@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030402193352.T64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
References:  <20030402193352.T64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > ...  The scaling of niceness was re-broken in -current about 3
> > years ago to "fix" the priority inversion problems.  This is with
> > SCHED_4BSD.  SCHED_ULE has larger problems.
>
> Do you know of any problem other than idlepri breakage?  I just fixed
> that.  I'm about to get on a plane so I don't have time to benchmark it.
> If you have a chance I'd love to see how the most recent fixes effect your
> buildworld time.

Nothing very important.  Many scheduler-related fields shown by ps are
now useless since they only have a dummy entry in them.  IIRC, one is
worse than useless since the dummy entry doesn't fit in the field width.

Bruce



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