On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 02-Oct-00 Zhiui Zhang wrote:
> >
> > Suppose a process is scheduled to run, will it run until its quantum ends
> > unless it calls tsleep() on his own? In other words, is it possible for a
> > process to give up its quantum earlier without having it to do so
> > voluntarily? Thanks.
>
> If an interrupt occurs and puts a thread on the run queue (which will have
> higher priority than the currently running proceess) then the current
> process will be stopped so that the interrupt thread can run.
Uhh, I think he wants a process to be able to willingly give up its
remaining quantum. This is called sched_yield(2).
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Dan Eischen
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