From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 05:47:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F8416A4BF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A39143F75 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h9FClZrq008253; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:47:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:47:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Jeff Roberson In-Reply-To: <20031015034832.E30029-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More ULE bugs fixed. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:47:42 -0000 On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote: > I fixed two bugs that were exposed due to more of the kernel running > outside of Giant. ULE had some issues with priority propagation that > stopped it from working very well. > > Things should be much improved. Feedback, as always, is welcome. I'd > like to look into making this the default scheduler for 5.2 if things > start looking up. I hope that scares you all into using it more. :-) Before you do that, can you look into changing the scheduler interfaces to address David Xu's concern with it being suboptimal for KSE processes? -- Dan Eischen