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From: Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: kern/13252: niced jobs don't behave really nice
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The following reply was made to PR kern/13252; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: holger.kipp@solit-ag.de, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/13252: niced jobs don't behave really nice
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:34:50 -0400

 On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:40:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > This is the same bug as in the suspended PR 12381.  The fix referred
 > to in the followup (rev.1.16.2.1 of isa/intr_machdep.c) is for a
 > different bug.  See PR 12381 for a much longer followup including a
 > correct reference to the fix.
 > 
 > Current status of this bug:
 > - never fixed in any 2.* or 3.* release.
 > - PR 12381 hidden^Wsuspended awaiting commits to RELENG_3.
 > - fixed in all 4.* releases by inheriting rev.1.83 of kern_synch.c (etc.).
 > - re-broken in -current in rev.1.90 of kern_sync.c (etc.).
 > - made worse in -current by SMPng prioritization changes (these squeeze
 >   the priority space, and the priority space was already too congested
 >   to work properly).
 
 Oops, this will teach me to never blindly trust what somebody else wrote a 
 long time ago...  In any case, we can probably leave this closed as it is a 
 duplicate of another PR.  Thanks for catching this, Bruce.
 
 -Jon

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