> One problem here is that you might end up with a weightless
> process having grabbed a superblock lock, after which a
> normal priority CPU hog kicks in and starves the weightless
> process.
--- One way would be to set a flag "I'm holding a lock" and when it releases the lock(s), deschedule it?> This makes little sense. If the system doesn't page out > the least used page in the system, the disks will be more > busy on page faults than they need to be, taking away IO > bandwidth from more important processes ;) --- Strictly speaking, true, probably nothing to make an exception for. -l - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Oct 07 2000 - 21:00:14 EST