From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 28 1:49:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3906337B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from murdoch.servitor.co.uk (murdoch.servitor.co.uk [217.151.99.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854C243FB1 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from mmu-firewall.mmu.ac.uk ([149.170.101.200] helo=miter96pq2w1fz) by murdoch.servitor.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 18oh8y-000GM5-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:49:28 +0000 From: "Paul Robinson" To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Subject: RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:49:23 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <20030228035736.81835.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FWIW, > > Although the original anticipatory scheduler prototype > was made for FreeBSD, it cannot be used in the base > system, unless reimplemented, due to the license. I > wonder if the Linux guys redid it or simply didn't > notice. > > The option of configuring it for runtime is welcome, I > think. The license is actually BSD. Or at least, the one I saw last night had a remarable resemblance to it. :-) The author of the implementation has also stated in an e-mail to me that he is happy for a BSD-based production-ready derivative to be produced based on his code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message