Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:54:33 +0100 | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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Hi,
yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > > is going to be an enormously important issue. However, once you add SCHED_FIFO in the > > > current scheme, this becomes more complex. And with preempt, you cannot even offer the > > > assurance that once a process gets the cpu it will make _any_ advance at all. > > > > I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but how is this related to > > preempt? > > It's pretty subtle. If there is no preempt, processes don't get preempted. > If there is preempt, they can be preempted. Amazing isn't it?
I just can't win against such brilliant argumentation, I'm out.
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