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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > so, what?  We will have a timer interrupt prior to the slice end, and
> > will have to make this decision all over again.  However, the real rub
> 
> Only on unusual occasions.
> 
> > is that we have to keep track of elapsed time and account for that (i.e.
> > shorten the remaining slice) not only in the timer interrupt, but each
> 
> We do anyway

Yes, but now we do all this in the timer tick, not in schedule().  This
occures much less often.  
> 
> Alan

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High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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