Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:27:15 +0100 (CET)


On 6 Mar 2003, Robert Love wrote:

> > in addition, timeslices should be shortest for high priority processes
> > (depending on dynamic prio, not static)
>
> No, they should be longer. In some cases they should be nearly
> infinitely long (which is sort of what we do with the reinsertion into
> the active array for highly interactive tasks). [...]

yes, and in fact tasks with 'infinite timeslice' do exist: RT tasks with
SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR.

Ingo

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