scheduler (sched_4bsd) questions

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sat Oct 2 19:44:18 PDT 2004


Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 14:31, Peter Holm wrote:
> 
>>OK, right now I'm testing with all of Stephan's patches + the 
>>MUTEX_WAKE_ALL flag. Uptime is 3 3/4 hour and looking good.

I've just resurfaced after a week of hell at work and home
not BAD hell but more like "busy as hell".

I'm just integrating your fixes into my tree to understand what they do..
expect more mail from me later.

> 
> 
> Great.
> 
> Your attached diff contained all the fixes needed and I don't see the
> need to post a cumulative patch. 
> 
> The only thing left to do is migrate a critical sections from
> kern_mutex.c to subr_turnstile.c for readability. 
> (no functional changes)
> 
> Maybe it would also better to just force  MUTEX_WAKE_ALL in
> kern_mutex.c (#ifndef MUTEX_WAKE_ALL \n#define MUTEX_WAKE_ALL\n#endif)
> to avoid temporary configuration file pollution?
> 
> 	Stephan
> 
> 




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