large ncpus / memory support going in, HEADS UP - master may have some instability

Chris Turner c.turner at 199technologies.org
Mon Dec 20 00:27:14 PST 2010


Matthew Dillon wrote:
    As part of the 48-core support some significant scheduler changes
    have gone into master, so again HEADS UP there may be some instability.
How do these scheduler changes relate to say, userland preemption or 
things of that nature (thinking soft-realtime, scheduling priority, etc) ?

I know in the past in general you've said thats not really a design goal 
- but, anyhow, seems to relate based on the commit messages

cheers

- Chris






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