From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 04:20:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C32C16A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:20:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EA943D55 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:20:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (proxy7.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.98]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/y.out) with ESMTP id j7B4IJZ2039525; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:10:01 +0900 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20050810.162006.48492066.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <42F9ECF2.8080809@freebsd.org> <200508100911.50004.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050810.162006.48492066.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.2 (99 Luftballons) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3.50 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Special schedulers, one CPU only kernel, one only userland X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:20:07 -0000 But, the question, which is interesting to me for other reasons (namely putting in various real-time schedulers) was not answered. Do we currently have the requisite primitives to implement different schedulers or is there still a lot of jiggery/pokery required? Thanks, George