Hi!
> > did "these" apply only to the tasks, that actually hold a lock?
> > if not, then i don't like this idea, as it gives the processes
> > time for the only reason, that it _might_ hold a lock. this basically
> > undermines the idea of static classes. in this case, we could actually
> > just make the "nice" scale incredibly large and possibly nonlinear,
> > as mark suggested.
>
> would it be possible to subqueue tasks that are holding a lock so that
> they get some guaranteed amount of cpu and just leave other to be executed
> when processor really idle?
There was implementation which promoted SCHED_IDLE task to normal
priority whenever it entered syscall. I liked it.
Pavel
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