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SubjectRe: question on incoming packets and scheduler
Friesen, Christopher [CAR:7Q28:EXCH] wrote:
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> I have a long-running cpu hog background task, and a high-priority
> critical task that waits on a socket for network traffic. When a packet
> comes in, I'd like the cpu hog to be swapped out ASAP, rather than
> waiting for the end of the timeslice. Is there any way to make this
> happen?
>
> The code paths that I managed to trace didn't seem to be calling the
> scheduler to force the context switch. Hopefully I missed something.

I should add that I'm on 2.4.22.

Chris



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