Re: [PATCH] scheduler hints

[Simon Trimmer]

On 4 Jun 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> I tried to find a decent paper on the web covering scheduler hints
> (sometimes referred to as hint-based scheduling) but could not find
> anything worthwhile.  Solaris, for example, implements scheduler hints
> so perhaps the "Solaris Internals" book has some information.

Hi Robert,
This isn't my thing but my flatmate had left a copy of solaris internals on
the table ;)

This is briefly mentioned around about page 384 and appears to be targetted
at userspace processes for exactly the cases you're suggesting (holding
global resources).

A good entry point into the sun online documentation for this stuff is
schedctl_init() -
http://docs.sun.com/db?q=schedctl_init&p=/doc/816-0216/6m6ngupm0&a=view

-Simon

Simon Trimmer <[e-mail]>           VERITAS R&D Watford, UK