On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:52:40 -0000, Rajat Jain said: > I though preemptible only means that a process can only be preempted (not > moved to another core) under following situations: > 1) An interrupt happens (In case of timer, it could put the process back in queue if its time slice expired). Actually, in case of any interrupt, be it timer or I/O or NMI or whatever. > 2) The process goes to sleep (can be a result of a call that can sleep). And there's no actual guarantee that when the process gets rescheduled, that you'll return to the same core you were on. > Can some one shed light on what conditions would a running process be moved to another core? Pretty much anytime the scheduler comes to that decision. :)
Attachment:
pgpPJeucTqm5P.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
