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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:41:26 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
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Subject: Re: fairsched + O(1) process scheduler
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:51:59PM +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote:
+
+	if(fairsched){
+		/* special processing for per-user fair scheduler */
+	}

I suspect something more needs to happen there. =)

I'd recommend a different approach, i.e. stratifying the queue into a
user top level and a task bottom level. The state is relatively well
encapsulated so it shouldn't be that far out.


-- wli