More syscall messaging commits, and some testing code as well.
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Aug 12 15:08:40 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
Right.
-Matt
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