Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:42:45 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: Preemptable kernel (was Scheduling latencies news: less RAM = less latency) |
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On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:49:01AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > So it is possible to have a real and complex OS that is preemptable and > pageable. Although I have to say that the MVS internals to support > kernel preemption and paging are a lot more complex than the current > Linux internals.
MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
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