On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Bradley Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to clarify my understanding of how the 2.6 runqueue is managed.
>
> The datastructure is made up of 140 lists each able to contain an infinite
> number of processes.  When a process with priority of 100 is created for
> example it is added to the list of processes with priority of 100.

in its active list, if I may add.... then after it runs and exhaust
its time slice it will go to expired list (in the new priority list
IIRC).

> It is
> added to the end of the list therefore for each list in the runqueue the
> processes are selected in fifo order. So, the 10th process of priority 100
> isn't evaluated until the first nine are evaluated.

correct.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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