Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:05:05 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: low priority soft RT? |
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yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu writes: > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:42:15PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > 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. > > I think this is what Richard Gooch had in mind, but I was too dense > to figure it out.
I thought you didn't like this because of the added complexity?
In any case, I like the ptrace-based approach that Artur Skawina came up with. I haven't read the patch yet, but the idea looks good.
Regards,
Richard....
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