Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:08:12 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.74-mm1 |
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:04:11AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Thinking strictly about the needs of sound processing, what's needed is a > guarantee of so much cpu time each time the timer fires, and a user limit to > prevent cpu hogging. It's worth pondering the difference between that and > rate-of-forward-progress. I suspect some simple improvements to the current > scheduler can be made to do the job, and at the same time, avoid the > priorty-based starvation issue that seems to have been practically mandated > by POSIX.
Such scheduling policies are called "isochronous".
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