Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Momchil Velikov (velco@fadata.bg)
14 Jan 2002 18:36:57 +0200

>>>>> "yodaiken" == yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com> writes:
yodaiken> current scheme, this becomes more complex. And with preempt, you cannot even offer the
yodaiken> assurance that once a process gets the cpu it will make _any_ advance at all.

So? It either shouldn't have got the CPU anyway (maybe it CPU is
needed for other things) or user's priority setup is seriously borked.

The scheduling policies, algorithms, mechanisms, whatever ... do not
guarantee schedulability by themselves.

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