Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:19:44 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE? |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > reschedule: > > orl $PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx) > > call SYMBOL_NAME(schedule) # test > > andl $~PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx) > > jmp ret_from_sys_call > > Wonderful ! > > I think we'll want to use this, since we can use it for: > > 1. SCHED_IDLE > 2. load control, when the VM starts thrashing we can just > suspend a few processes to make sure the system as a > whole won't thrash to death
Surely it would be easier, and more appropriate, to make the processes sleep when they next page fault.
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