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From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Task Switching in Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:02:53 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106120202.WAA27885@smarty.smart.net> (raw)

Jaswinder Singh wrote:
>
> In Linux , If we assume that there are only 2 tasks A and B and both are
> equal , this is correct or not :-
>
> TASK A -> schedule -> switch_to -> TASK B -> schedule -> switch_to ->
> schedule -> switch_to -> TASK A.
>

If you mean "->" as "specifically calls" then that looks like cooperative
multi-tasking, which is what kernel threads AND the Linux userland
scheduler do. If an in-kernel thread doesn't call schedule, it keeps the
CPU. See the H3rL stuff in ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim

Rick Hohensee
:; cLIeNUX /dev/tty11  21:00:45   /
:;d -d */
Cintpos/     boot/        device/      incoming/    owner/       temp/
Debian/      command/     floppy/      log/         source/
Linux/       configure/   guest/       lost+found/  subroutine/
NetBSD/      dev/         help/        mounts/      suite/


             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-12  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12  2:02 Rick Hohensee [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-11 20:30 Task Switching in Linux Jaswinder Singh
2001-06-11 22:45 ` george anzinger

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