Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers

Rik van Riel
2007-03-15T20:23:07Z

Dan Hecht wrote:

> Yes, the part in the "i.e." above is describing available time. So, it
> is essentially is the same definition of stolen time VMI uses:

> stolen time == ready to run but not running
> available time == running or not ready to run

S390 too. We were quite careful to make sure that steal time
means the same on the different platforms when the code was
introduced.

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