From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Boris Dragovic <lynx@falcon.etf.bg.ac.yu>,
Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:19:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010314141944.A27572@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010309210913.F13320@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103100154310.2283-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103100154310.2283-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:56:41AM -0300
Rik van Riel wrote:
> > reschedule:
> > orl $PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx)
> > call SYMBOL_NAME(schedule) # test
> > andl $~PF_HONOUR_LOW_PRIORITY,flags(%ebx)
> > jmp ret_from_sys_call
>
> Wonderful !
>
> I think we'll want to use this, since we can use it for:
>
> 1. SCHED_IDLE
> 2. load control, when the VM starts thrashing we can just
> suspend a few processes to make sure the system as a
> whole won't thrash to death
Surely it would be easier, and more appropriate, to make the processes
sleep when they next page fault.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-14 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-07 17:40 Oswald Buddenhagen
2001-03-07 18:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-07 19:20 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2001-03-07 21:34 ` ludovic
2001-03-08 11:17 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2001-03-08 11:41 ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-08 13:29 ` Boris Dragovic
2001-03-08 13:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-08 20:19 ` Boris Dragovic
2001-03-08 20:47 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-09 19:38 ` george anzinger
2001-03-09 20:19 ` Adrian Cox
2001-03-12 18:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-12 19:37 ` Adrian Cox
2001-03-13 9:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-10 2:58 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-09 19:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-10 3:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-09 20:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-10 4:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-14 13:19 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-03-15 3:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-14 14:26 ` Philipp Rumpf
2001-03-09 11:26 ` Pavel Machek
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