On 15/12/2011 00:42, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > It is already easy to switch schedulers. You change the option in your > kernel config, rebuild kernel (world isn't necessary as long as you > haven't csup'd between your last rebuild and now), make installkernel, > shutdown -r now, done. > > If what you're proposing is to make the scheduler changeable in > real-time? I think that would require a **lot** of work for something > that very few people would benefit from (please stop for a moment and > think about the majority of the userbase, not just niche environments; I > say this politely, not with any condescension BTW). Sure, it'd be > "nice to have", but should be extremely low on the priority list (IMO).
Somewhere in between might be a good idea it seems to me: viz, change a
setting in loader.conf and reboot to switch to a new scheduler. Having
to juggle different kernels is no big deal for the likes of you and me,
but it is quite a barrier in many environments.
Cheers,
Matthew
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