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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:14:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org
Cc:        rcarter@pinyon.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error in vm_fault change
Message-ID:  <199901262114.QAA01098@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990126150352.27963B-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "Jan 26, 99 03:06:54 pm"

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Robert Watson said:
> 
> In Fall, 1997 someone here at CMU stuck a lottery algorithm scheduler into
> FreeBSD, and wrote a paper describing where they had to make changes to
> FreeBSD to allow for more pluggable schedulers.  They didn't attempt to
> handle either real-time issues (and hence preemption for in-kernel
> processes) or SMP, but it might be a useful read.  I'll see if I can dig
> up a reference.  Allowing a pluggable scheduler via a kernel module would
> be pretty cool.
> 
I'd love to have a pointer to the paper...

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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