| Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:23:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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.
First task scheduled takes a resource that a second task needs. 150 other threads schedule via pre-emption, the one that it should share the resource with cannot run but the rest do. Repeat. It doesn't deadlock but it goes massively unfair
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