Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Roman Zippel
2002-01-14T18:57:06Z

Hi,

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> > > is going to be an enormously important issue. However, once you add SCHED_FIFO in the
> > > current scheme, this becomes more complex. And with preempt, you cannot even offer the
> > > assurance that once a process gets the cpu it will make _any_ advance at all.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but how is this related to
> > preempt?
>
> It's pretty subtle. If there is no preempt, processes don't get preempted.
> If there is preempt, they can be preempted. Amazing isn't it?

I just can't win against such brilliant argumentation, I'm out.

bye, Roman