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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2018 20:14:10 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is kern.sched.preempt_thresh=0 a sensible default?
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On 03/05/2018 12:41, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> I think that we need preemption policies that might not be expressible as one or
> two numbers.  A policy could be something like this:
> - interrupt threads can preempt only threads from "lower" classes: real-time,
> kernel, timeshare, idle;
> - interrupt threads cannot preempt other interrupt threads
> - real-time threads can preempt other real-time threads and threads from "lower"
> classes: kernel, timeshare, idle
> - kernel threads can preempt only threads from lower classes: timeshare, idle
> - interactive timeshare threads can only preempt batch and idle threads
> - batch threads can only preempt idle threads


Here is a sketch of the idea: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15693

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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