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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:10:40 +0200
From: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
To: Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com>
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Subject: Re: scheduler (sched_4bsd) questions
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:23:21AM -0400, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:13, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> 
> > I also had overlooked 
> > 	 	http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons80.html
> > Showing that my patch for kern_switch.c (switch_patch) has a bug.
> > I will send an updated patch later today.
> 
> OK - here is the promised patch.
> 

For once I'm the bearer of good news. The switch_patch_v2 + the
sched_4bsd patch ran the tests for more than one hour without
any freeze. The sched_4bsd alone did not stop the freezes. I'm
now testing the switch_patch_v2 alone and it's looking good for
55+ minutes of testing.

-- 
Peter Holm