ULE/SCHED_SMP diff for 7.0

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jul 17 08:13:50 UTC 2007


Johan Hendriks wrote:
> Sorry for the lame question but how do i apply the patch ?
>  
> regards
>  
>
> ________________________________
>
> Van: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org namens Jeff Roberson
> Verzonden: di 17-7-2007 8:35
> Aan: current at freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: ULE/SCHED_SMP diff for 7.0
>
>
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ule.diff
>
> This patch is scheduled for inclusion in 7.0.  I would like anyone who
> cares to run it to validate that it does not create any stability or
> performance regression over the existing ULE.  This patch replaces ULE
> with SCHED_SMP, which will now no longer exist as a seperate fork of ULE.
>
> Briefly, this is still a very suitable scheduler for uniprocessor machines
> while providing stronger affinity and other performance improvements for
> multiprocessor machines.
>
> Even "works for me!" type responses are welcome so I know roughly how many
> people have tested before I commit this close to release.
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>   
cd /usr/src/sys/ && fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ule.diff && 
patch < ule.diff

-Garrett


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