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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:39:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>,
	Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>,
	Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: New scheduler - Interactivity fixes
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:

> I think that the option should be set up so that no option gives the
> current scheduler.

We discussed that but that would require adding a #ifndef each time a
scheduler was added.  It's less appealing long term.  Sorry we didn't
include you on this discussion.  I sent requests for feedback on this with
my first arch@ post and eventually ended up directly discussing it with
re.

Cheers,
Jeff
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
> > In a moment I'm adding some config options to handle this.  I sent some
> > mail out to current@ and I'm adding a line to updating.  This has all gone
> > through re.  You will be required to specify one of SCHED_4BSD or
> > SCHED_ULE (new name for sched_smp) in your config file.  I went away from
> > sched_smp because it should be a very effective up scheduler as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > >     Jeff, how are you loading your scheduler in?  In my tests I just
> > >     #if 0'd out sched_4bsd.c and added sched_smp.c to conf/files, but
> > >     I think I'm missing something.  Is there some way to set the scheduler
> > >     at boot time (e.g. sched_4bsd.c vs sched_smp.c)?
> > >
> > > 						-Matt
> > >
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