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SubjectRe: SCHED_IDLE patch is a source of DoS

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > the problem is that there is no easy central way to determine wether a
> > process 'holds some valuable resource'.
>
> If it is in kernel mode (we can determine this, can't we?)
> we can take the assumption.

_every process_ that is scheduling is in kernel mode. If you mean 'if it's
preempted by an interrupt', then yes it removes the DoS. It's not very
robust though.

-- mingo


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