From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 07:12:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686C516A416 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD4A43D49 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-67-174-220-97.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.174.220.97]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2006100407120301300444t3e>; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:12:14 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD4CC1FA01A; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:12:02 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Martin Nilsson Message-ID: <20061004071202.GA59764@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Nilsson , Scott Long , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Marshall References: <9F7B653A50CF3D45A92C05401046239B0E0C27@rwsrv06.rw2.riverwillow.net.au> <45234418.7000205@samsco.org> <45235BBD.4030105@gneto.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45235BBD.4030105@gneto.com> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: John Marshall , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:12:15 -0000 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:59:09AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Can we have a commit (at least to STABLE) that adds a big fat message > during boot that goes something like: > > ### >>>> You are using SCHED_ULE scheduler <<<< ### > ### SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly experimental ### > ### Please revert to SCHED_4BSD before reporting problems. ### > ### (Unless of course you are reporting a ULE scheduler bug) ### An alternate idea: remove SCHED_ULE from the GENERIC kernel config and instead make a ULE config which can be included (similar to SMP and PAE). One could put all comments of that nature into the template, to inform people that if they wish to use ULE, it's cool -- but expect things to break (and to report such breakage!) Just spouting off some ideas... ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |