[GHC] #7606: Stride scheduling for Haskell threads with priorities

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#7606: Stride scheduling for Haskell threads with priorities
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    Reporter:  ezyang            |       Owner:  ezyang          
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.8.1           
   Component:  Runtime System    |     Version:  7.7             
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by simonpj):

 Can you also say a bit more about

  * What the goal of this change is.
  * Roughly how the new scheduling algorithm achieves the goal.
  * There seems to be something about priorities involved.  Who sets those
 priorities? The programmer?  The runtime system?
  * What about priority inversion?

 Thanks

 Simon

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