Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:22:12 +1100 | Subject | Re: Scheduling of low-priority background processes | From | Kevin Easton <> |
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I foolishly muttered:
> What if the SCHED_IDLE behaviour only applies when the process > is in userspace? Couldn't scheduler compare the process's > instruction pointer against the kernel/user break point, and > if the process is in the kernel, then just treat it like a > normal process?
...eek. I clearly wasn't thinking straight with that one. There isn't a (non-disgusting) way of determining in the scheduler if a process is executing a syscall apart from sys_sched_yield, is there.
Carry on...
- Kevin.
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