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Subject: RE: Question about sched_yield()
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> >Now, if I understand you well enough David, you'd like an
> >algorithm where the less you want the CPU, the more you get
> >it.
> 
> 	Exactly. This is the UNIX tradition of static and dynamic priorities. The 
> more polite you are about yielding the CPU when you don't need it, the more 
> claim you have to getting it when you do need it.
> 
> >I'd love if you could actually give us an outlook of
> >your ideal scheduler so I can try my thought experiment on it,
> >because from what I've understood so far, your hypothetical
> >scheduler would allocate all of the CPU to the yielders.
> 
> 	Not all, just the same share any other process gets. They're all 
> ready-to-run, they're all at the same priority.

Correct my logic, please:
	
	1. Rule: The less you want the CPU, the more you get it.
	2. A yielder process never wants the CPU
	3. As a result of Rule 1, it always gets it.


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