Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272752AbTHPGKb (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:10:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272748AbTHPGKb (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:10:31 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:62386 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272752AbTHPGK1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:10:27 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030816080614.01a0e418@pop.gmx.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:14:36 +0200 To: Jamie Lokier From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: Scheduler activations (IIRC) question Cc: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , gaxt In-Reply-To: <20030816005408.GA21356@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030815235431.GT1027@matchmail.com> <200308160149.29834.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030815230312.GD19707@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030815235431.GT1027@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 16 At 01:54 AM 8/16/2003 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: [...] >None of these will work well if "wakee" tasks are able to run >immediately after being woken, before "waker" tasks get a chance to >either block or put the wakees back to sleep. Sounds like another scheduler class (SCHED_NOPREEMPT) would be required. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/