Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:59:15 -0400 | From | "James H. Anderson" <> | Subject | Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the Linux-kernel |
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Raistlin wrote: > Also, I'm not sure I can find in the FMLP paper information about the > possibility of a task to suspend itself (e.g., I/O completion) while > holding a short lock... I assume this is not recommended, but may be > wrong, and, in that case, I hope Prof. Anderson and Bjorn will excuse > and correct me. :-) > > This is a really excellent point and something I probably should have mentioned. We developed the FMLP strictly for real-time (only) workloads. We were specifically looking at protecting memory-resident resources (not I/O). The FMLP would have to be significantly extended to work in settings where these assumptions don't hold.
Thanks for pointing this out.
-Jim
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