From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 26 13:17:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01400 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01393 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 19453 invoked from network); 26 Jan 1999 21:14:39 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 26 Jan 1999 21:14:39 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA01098; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:14:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901262114.QAA01098@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Error in vm_fault change In-Reply-To: from Robert Watson at "Jan 26, 99 03:06:54 pm" To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:14:33 -0500 (EST) Cc: rcarter@pinyon.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson said: > > In Fall, 1997 someone here at CMU stuck a lottery algorithm scheduler into > FreeBSD, and wrote a paper describing where they had to make changes to > FreeBSD to allow for more pluggable schedulers. They didn't attempt to > handle either real-time issues (and hence preemption for in-kernel > processes) or SMP, but it might be a useful read. I'll see if I can dig > up a reference. Allowing a pluggable scheduler via a kernel module would > be pretty cool. > I'd love to have a pointer to the paper... -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message