More syscall messaging commits, and some testing code as well.
Eric J. Chet
ejc at bazzle.com
Tue Aug 12 12:44:36 PDT 2003
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Hysteresis would definitely be desireable. The userland scheduler cannot
> just stop, though, because that could deadlock the program. It would
> have to revert to polling until the concurrent syscall count drops below
> the hysteresis point.
Once the userland scheduler polls and can't execute the current thread
wouldn't it schedule another thread? If there arn't any other threads to
schedule, I guess it would continue to poll.
Eric
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