> On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:31:35PM +0100, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
>
> > i have left it that way on purpose. There is no reason to assume
> > that the timeslice will get smaller after a fork. If we do anything
> > like that then we should reset the _parent's_ timeslice ... (thats
> > the typical fork() usage pattern: parent forks a child and goes
> > sleeping [ie. waiting for results] shortly afterwards).
>
> sounds like it could be abused -- sprinkle your code with losts of
> little
>
> if(!fork())
> exit();
>
> snippets everywhere -- and you'll end up getting way to much cpu
> compared to otehr processes.
no, it's just a 'hint', and only for the SMP case (currently). It does not
change the amount of CPU time a process gets, it just tries to guess
wether to change CPUs right now.
-- mingo
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