Re: 4BSD process starvation during I/O

From: David Xu (davidxu_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:10:40 +0800
    To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
    
    

    Kris Kennaway wrote:

    >On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:52:30AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Kris Kennaway wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>Perhaps this can be tweaked.
    >>>
    >>>Kris
    >>>
    >>>P.S. Please, no responses about how maybe someone could write a new
    >>>scheduler that doesn't have this property.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>Can you try it again with FULL_PREEMPTION is turned on ?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >OK. Is this option believed to be "safe" (i.e. largely free from
    >bugs), and would it be useful to test more widely?
    >
    >Kris
    >
    >
    >
    I didn't test it on big machine. if I remembered it correctly, we only
    do preemption at user boundary if the FULL_PREEMPTION is turned off,
    you know system thread won't go to user boundary. :-)

    David Xu

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