Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
From: Robert Love (rml_AT_ximian.com)
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 22:11:35 EEST


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:36 -0400, Scott Wood wrote:

> This is assuming that a high-priority non-RT task will always preempt
> a lower priority task except when it has depleted its timeslice; I'm
> not familiar enough with the current scheduler to know whether that
> is the case.

Yes, this is the basic scheduling rule for non-RT: the highest priority
task, with timeslice remaining, runs.

        Robert Love


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