lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Mar]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent?
On Tue 16-03-04 14:49:41, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I
> > didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for
> > all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel
> > shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The
> > userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do,
> > should tell the kernel.
>
> People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their
> advantage...

You could heavily penalize process that lied... Or perhaps his user.

--
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:01    [W:0.041 / U:0.124 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site