Re: low priority soft RT?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:42:15 +0200


yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> > What's wrong with simply promoting the SCHED_IDLE task to normal
> > priority while it's in the kernel?
>
> You could just fix "goodness" to do a different calculation depending
> on the process state.

Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. It's so obvious, I'm surprised it
hasn't come up before.

> > That leaves only user-space deadlocks, e.g. a locked file, which I don't
> > think we should be worring about here.

-- Jamie

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