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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proposed scheduler enhancements and fixes
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:54:02PM -0800, Dimitris Michailidis wrote:

> * adds a new scheduling policy SCHED_IDLE. Processes of this type
> run on CPUs that would otherwise be idle. Useful for apps like
> SETI@Home, code crackers, etc. Implementation of this feature is
> extremely lightweight. Among the scheduling functions only
> schedule() is SCHED_IDLE-aware and the overhead for non-idle CPUs
> is at most 1 instruction per schedule() invocation;

what happens of something SCHED_IDLE holds a lock and never gets an
CPU time?

> * implements process pinning, which allows a process to be pinned
> to a subset of the CPUs.

IRIX has an API for this -- I would suggest we use that API if
possible.



-cw

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