* Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would seem like there should be a penalty associated with sending > those points as well, so that two processes communicating quickly with > each other won't get into a mutual love-fest that'll capture the > scheduler's attention.
it's not really "points", but "nanoseconds you are allowed to execute on the CPU". And thus two processes communicating with each other quickly and sending around this resource does get the attention of CFS: the resource is gradually consumed because the two processes are running on the CPU while they are communicating with each other. So it all works out fine. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/