Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:47 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only Message-ID: <jgtl07$hkp$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20120206191031.GA76990@freebsd.org> References: <4F2F7B7F.40508@FreeBSD.org> <20120206160136.GA35918@freebsd.org> <4F2FFFDA.2080608@FreeBSD.org> <201202061837.48946.tijl@coosemans.org> <4F301406.7080906@FreeBSD.org> <20120206191031.GA76990@freebsd.org>
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On 06/02/2012 20:10, Alexander Best wrote: > btw: does anybody know, if there are plans to commit the BFS scheduler to HEAD BFS is available but I think it needs more work on it before it can be useful; it didn't explore some optimizations it could have and currently spends much more time in lock contention with itself that necessary. I.e. it's usable only in very borderline cases. > algorithm would be a scheduling infrastructure similar to GEOM. that way it > would be much easier to implement new algorithms (maybe in XML). I don't think XML would be applicable beyond fine-tuning an already existing scheduler (unless we implement a whole Turing-complete sublanguage in it :) ). Someone mentioned on a list that he has a "pluggable scheduler" infrastructure ready - this would be a necessary first step in modularization.
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