Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 20 14:13:16 UTC 2008


Murty, Ravi wrote:
> Jeremy, thanks. I look forward to switching to ULE in 7.0 and realize
> that it is a completely new scheduler (I spent some time yesterday
> looking at it) -- which is my porting effort is much harder than a
> simple cut and paste. I just wanted to find out if there was something
> simple I could look at before I spent weeks porting my changes to the
> scheduler (also I can justify the move to 7.x). I can't figure out why
> my 8 app threads run so slow -- I am booting the kernel is single user
> mode with not much else running and my threads do a lot of work and
> don't really sleep.

Once again, ULE in 6.x is too broken to use, which is why major changes 
were required to get it to a suitable state in 7.0.  It's a shame that 
you didn't read about this before putting in so much work.

Kris



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