MFC wishlist

[Scott Long]

Ivan Voras wrote:

> Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:07:07AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:11:40AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's been a while now and (judging from this list at least), people 
>>>>> are not complaining about ULE, so maybe (with re@ approval) the fix 
>>>>> & supporting infrastructure could be brought to RELENG_5?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's not a good idea.  I can lock up ULE+PREEMPTION on
> 
> 
>>> This is observed in pre-5.3RELEASE CURRENT, but I thought Jeff has
> 
> 
>> I'm talking about 6-CURRENT.  My last kernel/world build is
> 
> 
> Are there plans for assigning more priority/resources on solving this? 
> Maybe mark it as show-stopper for 5.4? (it's currently not even on the 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html list)

Assigning priorities and resources really is at the will of the
developers.  Very few are paid to do this work, and none are paid by
the release engineering or core groups.  The release engineers can
put items on the todo list in hopes that it will inspire others to
help.  Specifically for ULE, since it is not the default scheduler,
it will not be making the showstopper list for 5.4.  If someone would
like to step forward and work on ULE full time, that would be wonderful
and I'd highly encourage it.

Scott