Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:50:05 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: SCHED_IDLE patch is a source of DoS |
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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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