Scheduler patch 03 available for testing

[Scott Ullrich]

This may be off topic but could we use something like this:

"Bossa, a framework for scheduler development"

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7623

Regards,

Scott

"Matthew Dillon" <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>     At some point we need to make the userland scheduler 'loadable', kinda
>     like FreeBSD-5 except to do it right we also need the ability to
switch
>     schedulers on the fly (which is actually not too hard to do) rather
>     then only at boot.
>
>     This will require formalizing API hooks between the userland scheduler
>     and LWKT, and adding hooks to 'record' processes for transfer to
another
>     scheduler.
>
>     Additionally, it should (theoretically) be possible to install
multiple
>     userland schedulers and have a p_* field in the proc structure point
to
>     which scheduler to use :-).  Since the userland schedulers are
independant
>     of LWKT, LWKT doesn't really care.  Of course, the multiple userland
>     schedulers would compete for the same cpu :-)... but that's a
different
>     problem.