| Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:21:51 +0100 | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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Hi,
yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> We're having a write only discussion - time to stop.
Sorry, but I'm still waiting for the proof that preempting deadlocks the system. If n running processes have together m time slices, after m ticks every process will have run it's full share of the time, no matter how often you schedule. (I assume here a correct time accounting, which is currently not the case, but that's a different (and not new) problem.) So even the low priority process will have the same time as before to do it's job, it will be delayed, but it will not be delayed forever, so I'm failing to see how preempting Linux should deadlock.
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