Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?

[Jamie Lokier]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> > reschedule:
> > 	orl $PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx)
> > 	call SYMBOL_NAME(schedule)    # test
> > 	andl $~PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx)
> > 	jmp ret_from_sys_call
> 
> Wonderful !
> 
> I think we'll want to use this, since we can use it for:
> 
> 1. SCHED_IDLE
> 2. load control, when the VM starts thrashing we can just
>    suspend a few processes to make sure the system as a
>    whole won't thrash to death

Surely it would be easier, and more appropriate, to make the processes
sleep when they next page fault.

-- Jamie