HEADS-UP: ULE scheduler coming to 8.0-CURRENT soon...

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ken Smith wrote:

>
> I think it's fairly common knowledge by now but...  The ULE scheduler is
> "back" and has been doing VERY nicely.  We actually had an internal
> discussion about making it the default for 7.0.  In the end it was
> decided that ULE "just barely missed the bus".  Its performance makes
> giving it a try once 7.0 comes out definitely worthwhile but it was just
> barely "too new" for us to be truly comfortable with changing it to be
> the default.  We'd like it to have the exposure of one release cycle
> (7.0-REL) before it becomes the default.  For now we're planning to make
> it the default for 7.1-REL.
>
> To that end either Jeff or I will be switching the default scheduler in
> 8.0-CURRENT for the amd64 and i386 architectures over to ULE in a couple
> days (Wednesday-ish).
But it is and will be available for 7.0 ???

Regards,

Uli.


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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany