[haiku-development] Re: Scheduler algorithm improvements

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:52:03 +0100

Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2009-11-27 at 16:18:46 [+0100], Mikhail Panasyuk <otoko@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> [...]
> Anyway, it certainly wouldn't harm, if someone had a closer look at 
> the uses 
> of the thread::priority field to verify whether there really is a 
> point to 
> having a next_priority field.

IIRC it had been introduced to implement priority boost on a semaphore 
release - a concept that didn't work out well, and has been removed 
completely in the mean time AFAICT.
So I guess we can probably remove it, but someone should have a closer 
look indeed ;-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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