Just curious, what exactly do you mean by "lots of penguins"? I assume
you mean processes? What do penguins have to do with anything. ;)
> 1) A process currently sleeping in kernel mode is ready to go forward
>
> 2) At least one processor is busy running a SCHED_OTHER process
>
> Would it benefit throughput if it was guaranteed that the sleeping
> process gets to go forward at the expense of the already running
> process? It would mean that processes get out of kernel mode quicker.
Actually running? That would be bad. It would mean that we'd have to
preempt another processor, which I gather is a very expensive thing to do.
If you mean that when scheduling is already happening, run processes with
a kernel lock before processes without one, I don't know. It may be worth
benchmarking to decide.
Chris Smith <cd_smith@ou.edu>
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