4BSD process starvation during I/O

[David Xu]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:52:30AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
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>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>>Perhaps this can be tweaked.
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>>>P.S. Please, no responses about how maybe someone could write a new
>>>scheduler that doesn't have this property.
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>>Can you try it again with FULL_PREEMPTION is turned on ?
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>Didn't really make a difference:
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This might only can be fixed when msleep no longer explicitly fiddles
thread priority, let scheduler fully control it.