Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Who (and when) is calling the scheduler ? -- More confusion ... | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:21:09 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980831090756.26940A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>, Rik van Riel writes: +----- | On 28 Aug 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: | > ... in which case either the new bottom-half processing will be deferred | > until the next interrupt. We could conceivably just loop in | > run_bottom_halves until there are no more deliverable bottom halves, | > which would get around to servicing the scheduler bh more quickly. | | That might be a Good Thing(tm) to do, since that would +--->8
I'd put a cap on it; otherwise, a long burst of heavy I/O could bring user tasks to a halt (and exhaust the buffers of received data waiting to be processed by them).
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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