On Sun, 29 May 2005, Karane Mariano Vieira wrote: > I would like to change the way the scheduler delivers the timeslices, > it is the goal of a small homework in my university. In that case, I won't tell you the answers. I'll only tell you where to look ;) > I´d like to know: > - the exactly moment (in the code) the a task receives its timeslice The central function for the scheduler is schedule() in kernel/sched.c. > - Is there any differency between the code which deal with processes > and threads Please take a look at kernel/fork.c, in particular the function do_fork() and the functions it calls. Pay particular attention to the flags... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
