Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle

Anthony DeRobertis
2001-12-09T22:31:47Z

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 11:39 , Robert Love wrote:

> What do you think will happen when an "idle" task holds a
> resource or is
> otherwise a producer for something a higher priority, running, task
> needs?

One of two things:
1) The higher priority task will no longer be runnable; or
2) We gave enough rope to hang yourself, and, well, you did.