Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:43:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject:   Re: New Linux threading model
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020920104316.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209201112230.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On 20-Sep-2002 Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Bill Huey wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:08:38AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> > HI and thanks for the pointers.
>> >
>> > it's interesting that the features that they talk about
>> > as being difficult and 'required' generally just "fall out" of the
>> > KSE implimentation. A lot of the shortcomings of M:N that they
>> > quote don't apply to the KSE schemes either..
>>
>> Mingo's O(1) scheduler is pretty snazzy ( high brow technical term ;) )
>> with how it migrates/load balances tasks between various CPUs, maintains
>> cache coherency,
> 
> What's maybe more important about the O(1) scheduler is that it
> doesn't try to recalculate the priority of all processes once
> in a while, like the FreeBSD scheduler and the old Linux scheduler.

Yes, schedcpu() needs to die die die and be replaced by a more event-driven
model. :)

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.20020920104316.jhb>