Hello.... Rajaram Suryanarayanan wrote: > So if the swap occurs when some process is sleeping, the sleeping > process after it wakes up goes to the new active array ? Correct! That way, freshly awaken process will be ready to be executed in the CPU. If not, you can imagine that this process will need to wait until the next array swap. Also, remember that both array swap and process insertion/removal to/from task array are done in "atomic" style to maintain data consistency. in other word, it is done inside non interruptible code path. Interrupts are temporarily disabled disabled during these. For example, check how __wake_up() and wake_up() are implemented (in kernel/sched.c) regards Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
