From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266914AbUGVTNQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266913AbUGVTLy (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:11:54 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:12425 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266914AbUGVTKp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:10:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch From: Robert Love To: Scott Wood Cc: Ingo Molnar , Lee Revell , Andrew Morton , linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel , "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" In-Reply-To: <20040722183618.GB4774@yoda.timesys> References: <20040719102954.GA5491@elte.hu> <1090380467.1212.3.camel@mindpipe> <20040721000348.39dd3716.akpm@osdl.org> <20040721053007.GA8376@elte.hu> <1090389791.901.31.camel@mindpipe> <20040721082218.GA19013@elte.hu> <20040721183010.GA2206@yoda.timesys> <20040721184308.GA27034@elte.hu> <20040722023235.GB3298@yoda.timesys> <20040722095111.GA13125@elte.hu> <20040722183618.GB4774@yoda.timesys> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:11:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1090523495.7584.39.camel@lucy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:36 -0400, Scott Wood wrote: > This is assuming that a high-priority non-RT task will always preempt > a lower priority task except when it has depleted its timeslice; I'm > not familiar enough with the current scheduler to know whether that > is the case. Yes, this is the basic scheduling rule for non-RT: the highest priority task, with timeslice remaining, runs. Robert Love