>If there are three users A,B,C then each will get 33 percent of the >CPU. If A has 5 processes then they will share A's 33%, and will be >scheduled in the traditional way. If B has only one process then it >will get the entire 33% assigned to B and so on... Can anyone please >suggest any ideas. i haven't looked at linux scheduler in a long while, but i think it would be easier to have a diferent process queue for each user AFAIR, a simple round-robin scheduler maintains a FIFO queue; picks the topmost process to execute, and puts it back in the end after its time is used up (or is blocked) further refinements include maintaining a diferent queue for each priority level, and lots of extra smartness just replicate all those queues, tables etc. one structure for each user, and do a round-robin between those <DISCLAIMER> I've never written a scheduler </DISCLAIMER> ------ Javier -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/S d- s+:-- a C+++$ UL++++$ P+ L+++$ E W+++$ N- o? K? w--- O- M+++$ V- PS PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5- X+ R- !tv b+++ DI+++ D G+ e? h! r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
