From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dumb question about Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:53:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1089921188.2710.31.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F6E504.1@techsource.com>
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> My question is this: Do your reschedule points (might_sleep or whatever
> you end up using) ALWAYS reschedule, or do they only reschedule after a
> certain period of time (timer interrupt increments counter, and
> reschedule point does nothing if it's too early)?
they only reschedule when there is a higher priority task is waiting to
be run. In all other cases the current code just keeps running.
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2004-07-15 20:11 Dumb question about Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Timothy Miller
2004-07-15 19:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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