Hi, I think goodness of a process is calculated after it has entered the schedule. Will it happen than when it is in schedule the current process(prev) happens to have policy SCHED_FIFO and needs to go in wait queue or whatever. Thank you, Rahul. -----Original Message----- From: Momchil Velikov [mailto:velco@fadata.bg] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:40 PM To: Sonawane, Rahul (Rahul) Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Linux scheduling. >>>>> "Sonawane" == Sonawane, Rahul (Rahul) <sonawane@avaya.com> writes: Sonawane> Hi , I am looking into scheduler. I have a question. Will Sonawane> it ever happen that when the scheduler(schedule() ) is Sonawane> executing and the current process has policy SCHED_FIFO. If Sonawane> no why ? This doubt came to my mind because in the schedule Sonawane> code the policy SCHED_FIFO is never checked. Thanks in Sonawane> advance, Rahul. See kernel/sched.c:goodness(). ~velco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
