From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on incoming packets and scheduler
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:42:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8CC220.5050009@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F8CA55C.1080203@nortelnetworks.com
Friesen, Christopher [CAR:7Q28:EXCH] wrote:
>
> I have a long-running cpu hog background task, and a high-priority
> critical task that waits on a socket for network traffic. When a packet
> comes in, I'd like the cpu hog to be swapped out ASAP, rather than
> waiting for the end of the timeslice. Is there any way to make this
> happen?
>
> The code paths that I managed to trace didn't seem to be calling the
> scheduler to force the context switch. Hopefully I missed something.
I should add that I'm on 2.4.22.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-15 1:39 question on incoming packets and scheduler Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 3:42 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-10-15 17:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-10-15 18:17 ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 18:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-10-15 20:13 ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 20:27 ` Andrew R. Reiter
2003-10-15 20:53 ` Chris Friesen
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