Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 00:28:27 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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

Perhaps an $(error ) (don't know the pmake analog) should be put into
the kernel Makefile to note that ULE is busted?
-Garrett


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