From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:27:45 -0400 Received: from nwcst280.netaddress.usa.net ([204.68.23.25]:55757 "HELO nwcst280.netaddress.usa.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:27:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20010914022756.9487.qmail@nwcst280.netaddress.usa.net> Date: 13 Sep 2001 21:27:56 CDT From: shreenivasa H V To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: scheduler policy X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.21.01) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, In process scheduling, when an epoch ends because of the current process completing its time quantum (and all the runnable ones having finished their respective quantums), at the start of the new epoch, will the current running process retain the cpu (assuming all the runnable ones are of the same priority)? Can anyone give some pointers as to where I can find detailed info for linux process scheduling. thanks, shreeni.