4BSD process starvation during I/O

[Scott Long]

David Xu wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:52:30AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
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>>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>>> Perhaps this can be tweaked.
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>>>> Kris
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>>>> P.S. Please, no responses about how maybe someone could write a new
>>>> scheduler that doesn't have this property.
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>>> Can you try it again with FULL_PREEMPTION is turned on ?
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>> Didn't really make a difference:
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> This might only can be fixed when msleep no longer explicitly fiddles
> thread priority, let scheduler fully control it.
> 

I don't agree.  The more likely problem according Stephan is that
threads returning from userland get their priority elevated so they have
a better chance of running right away.  If you have plans to change how
tsleep and msleep manage priorities, please discuss it on arch@ before
you start making changes.

Scott