Messages in this thread | | | From | "Davide Libenzi" <> | Subject | Re: Auto-Adaptive scheduler - Final chapter ( the numbers ) ... | Date | Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:01:21 +0100 |
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> : Larry McVoy wrote: > : > : _If_ we see that low RQ applications don't switch much, then we can > : > : assert that low RQ applications aren't adversely affected by the patch. > : > > : > Huh? What about I/O servers? FTP, Web, etc? Are they not low RQ and > : > frequently switching applications? Yes, they are. > : > : If they are frequently switching, there must be several processes to > : switch
> No. You can have this with one process that is blocking on I/O. It happens > all the time. Think of a relatively low bandwidth network connection.
Probably You mean "high bandwidth" if You want to prove to have high switch rate. To have a task switch frequently You must have the task ready to run, therefore You need the task served fastly by devices, therefore You need "high bandwidth".
Davide.
-- All this stuff is IMVHO
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