Michel Talon
2011-Dec-16 21:42 UTC
switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)
Adrian Chadd said:> Hi all, > > Can someone load a kernel module dynamically at boot-time? > > Ie, instead of compiling it in, can 4bsd/ule be loaded as a KLD at > boot-time, so the user can just change by rebooting? > > That may be an acceptable solution for now.As Luigi explained, the problem is not to have code for both schedulers residing in the kernel, the problem is to migrate processes from one scheduler to the other. -- Michel Talon talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr
Doug Barton
2011-Dec-16 21:51 UTC
switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)
On 12/16/2011 13:40, Michel Talon wrote:> Adrian Chadd said: > > >> Hi all, >> >> Can someone load a kernel module dynamically at boot-time? >> >> Ie, instead of compiling it in, can 4bsd/ule be loaded as a KLD at >> boot-time, so the user can just change by rebooting? >> >> That may be an acceptable solution for now. > > As Luigi explained, the problem is not to have code for both > schedulers residing in the kernel, the problem is to migrate > processes from one scheduler to the other.I think dynamically switching schedulers on a running system and loading one or the other at boot time are different problems, are they not? Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/