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From: Thomas Koeller <tkoeller@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: Scheduling of low-priority background processes
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:30:08 +0100
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On Monday,  5. November 2001 23:24, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> please read the scheduler; it's not that bad, especially if you
> ignore the SMP case.  normal procs are only considered if there
> are no runnable RT procs.

I know the scheduler works this way. But does it have to? What I meant to do 
was suggesting an improvement.

Thomas


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