Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Andy Farkas wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: It looks tp me that if we make a thread runnable and there is a processor in the idle loop, the idle processor should be kicked in some way to make it go get the newly runnable

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Andy Farkas wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: It looks tp me that if we make a thread runnable and there is a processor in the idle loop, the idle processor should be kicked in

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
Mr Wolf, Heh, you noticed :) Currently (cpu_idle_hlt=1) the load is fluctuating between 2.20 and 3.60 every few minutes! (xload looks like a graph of a sinewave) If I set cpu_idle_hlt back to 0 the load goes back to a steady 3.80 where it should be. define should. When all 3 seti's

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: Mr Wolf, Heh, you noticed :) Currently (cpu_idle_hlt=1) the load is fluctuating between 2.20 and 3.60 every few minutes! (xload looks like a graph of a sinewave) If I set cpu_idle_hlt back to 0 the load goes back to a steady 3.80 where