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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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  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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