Re: idle priority

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:34:24 +0200


> - we want to change schedule_idle() to immediately replace a
> SCHED_IDLE process when something else is runnable
> - we want _long_ timeslices to maximize speed and to minimize
> impact on cache/memory/etc. (say 1 minute)
> - [for 2.3.x] we want a 2-level scheduling mechanism with CTSS-like
> timeslice adaptation, a limited number of SCHED_IDLE tasks on the
> runqueue and some other advanced features like a (small) secondary
> idle task which only gets run when the first one takes a fault, we
> will then remove the SCHED_RR feature too.

We want that old "QNX-style" scheduler ported to 2.[123].
It already has all those nice features.

olaf

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