Hi, Talking about a design: There is a system, where processes keep coming at random. Most of the processes, wait on a global wait variable. So when a wake_up is called all the processes wake up, however only a certain number are allowed to execute. the rest go back to sleep till the "certain number" processes have not freed the resources. Can such a situation lead to starvation? Of what I have found. The sleep_on and wake_up sequence uses list_add (not list_add_tail) and list_for_each, which I think shows a LIFO behaviour. Taking the scheduler sequence also into consideration I think it may lead to process starvation. Regards, -- Goldwyn -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
