Hi :) On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:07, Parmenides <mobile.parmenides@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually, a common characteristics of Linux's schedulers is that > timeslices will be longer with priorities raising . generally I agree with that.... :) > I am just curious > about why the the schedulers takes this policy. simply to say that, the more important a job is, it should be given longer time to run... but, the process has privilege to yield before time slice is up...and when it comes back,it will use the remaining time slice.....and its dynamic priority will stay the same (that's the property that I recall....) >IMHO, this policy > somewhat conflicts with intuition. I think there must be some > motivations to take this policy, but I have no idea about it. well, you can think, what happen if you take the other direction for the policy? higher priority, but less time slice? that, IMHO, is less intuitive. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
