Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:18:01 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:56:05PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > > is going to be an enormously important issue. However, once you add SCHED_FIFO in the > > current scheme, this becomes more complex. And with preempt, you cannot even offer the > > assurance that once a process gets the cpu it will make _any_ advance at all. > > I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but how is this related to > preempt?
It's pretty subtle. If there is no preempt, processes don't get preempted. If there is preempt, they can be preempted. Amazing isn't it? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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