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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Kaczmarski <fallow@op.pl>,
	Shane Shrybman <shrybman@aei.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] V-3.0 Single Priority Array O(1) CPU Scheduler Evaluation
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:05:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040804070525.GA4719@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41104C8F.9080603@bigpond.net.au>


* Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> >>Unfortunately, to ensure no starvation, promotion has to continue even 
> >>when there are tasks in MAX_RT_PRIO's slot.
> >
> >One may either demote to evict MAX_RT_PRIO immediately prior to
> >rotation or rely on timeslice expiry to evict MAX_RT_PRIO. Forcibly
> >evicting MAX_RT_PRIO undesirably accumulates tasks at the fencepost.
> 
> It's starting to get almost as complex as the current scheme :-)

hey, it's 'complex' for a reason ;)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-04  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02  6:31 [PATCH] V-3.0 Single Priority Array O(1) CPU Scheduler Evaluation Peter Williams
2004-08-02 13:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-03  0:33   ` Peter Williams
2004-08-03  2:03     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-03  3:39       ` Peter Williams
2004-08-03 10:49         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-04  0:37           ` Peter Williams
2004-08-04  0:50             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-04  1:36               ` Peter Williams
2004-08-04  1:51                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-04  2:40                   ` Peter Williams
2004-08-04  7:05                     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-08-04  7:44                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  1:06                       ` Peter Williams
2004-08-05  2:00                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  2:12                           ` Peter Williams
     [not found] <2oEEn-197-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-02 13:27 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-03  0:27   ` Peter Williams
2004-08-03  3:53     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-03  4:38       ` Peter Williams
2004-08-03  6:51       ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-07  1:44 Peter Williams

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