Re: Who (and when) is calling the scheduler ? -- More confusion ...
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:21:09 -0300
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980831090756.26940A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>,
Rik
van Riel writes:
+-----
| On 28 Aug 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
| > ... in which case either the new bottom-half processing will be deferred
| > until the next interrupt. We could conceivably just loop in
| > run_bottom_halves until there are no more deliverable bottom halves,
| > which would get around to servicing the scheduler bh more quickly.
|
| That might be a Good Thing(tm) to do, since that would
+--->8
I'd put a cap on it; otherwise, a long burst of heavy I/O could bring user
tasks to a halt (and exhaust the buffers of received data waiting to be
processed by them).
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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