Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: AGP & non-root mmap calls: "lending" priviledges to a client | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Date | 17 Jul 1999 10:44:41 +0200 |
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chris@xig.com (Christopher Hassell) writes:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Christopher Hassell wrote: > > ] Are there any plans to allow "handing over" priviledges to clients, from one > ] process to another? > > Looks like we got a simple, old and standard way to "share priviledges" for > file descriptors. Thanx for the help. > > Now... anyone have ideas on how to convince the scheduler to prefer certain > context switches (i.e. between tightly-coupled server-client pairs)? I > know we were discussing latency recently. Latency seems to be, itself, the > one big drawback of the server-client model.
The 2.2 scheduler already has such a heuristic: if one process wakes up another it considers them a gang and tries to run the other directly if possible.
-Andi
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