Re: Scheduling of low-priority background processes

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!
> I foolishly muttered:
> 
> > What if the SCHED_IDLE behaviour only applies when the process 
> > is in userspace? Couldn't scheduler compare the process's 
> > instruction pointer against the kernel/user break point, and 
> > if the process is in the kernel, then just treat it like a 
> > normal process? 
> 
> ...eek.   I clearly wasn't thinking straight with that one.  There
> isn't a (non-disgusting) way of determining in the scheduler if a
> process is executing a syscall apart from sys_sched_yield, is there.

Actually, something similar was implemented. New process flag was added,
and when process did syscall, it lost SCHED_IDLE flag, and it was returned
to it when it went back to userland.

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