Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?

Boris Dragovic
2001-03-08T13:32:30Z

> did "these" apply only to the tasks, that actually hold a lock?
> if not, then i don't like this idea, as it gives the processes
> time for the only reason, that it _might_ hold a lock. this basically
> undermines the idea of static classes. in this case, we could actually
> just make the "nice" scale incredibly large and possibly nonlinear,
> as mark suggested.

would it be possible to subqueue tasks that are holding a lock so that
they get some guaranteed amount of cpu and just leave other to be executed
when processor really idle?

lynx