docs/61870: [PATCH] Update UPDATING to reflect the fact that SCHED_ULE has been made default

Xin LI delphij at frontfree.net
Sun Jan 25 07:10:19 UTC 2004


>Number:         61870
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] Update UPDATING to reflect the fact that SCHED_ULE has been made default
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 24 23:10:16 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Xin LI
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #16: Sat Jan 10 15:24:09 CST 2004 delphij at beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386


>Description:
	The new scheduler, namely, SCHED_ULE has been made default today and I think it would be good to update UPDATING to reflect the fact.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

	Apply the following patch to src/UPDATING

--- patch begins here ---
Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mirror/freebsd/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v
retrieving revision 1.285
diff -u -r1.285 UPDATING
--- UPDATING	15 Dec 2003 19:19:16 -0000	1.285
+++ UPDATING	25 Jan 2004 07:00:25 -0000
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
 	developers choose to disable these features on build machines
 	to maximize performance.
 
+20040125:
+	After a year of improvements and tests, the ULE scheduler is
+	now believed to be mature enough and has been made default.
+	SCHED_ULE is a new scheduler that has been designed for SMP
+	and has some advantages for UP as well. See sys/conf/NOTES
+	for detailed information.
+
 20031213:
 	src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c:1.8 now causes logins to fail
 	if the login process is unable to successfully set the
--- patch ends here ---


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