> I believe we opted to leave all process in the queues to speed up the
> state change procedures. The selection process was always at the end of
I believe in that too, expecially if a good RT tasks distribution is
achieved.
> I always liked the trick of converting the bit vector to a floating point to
> use the exponent to determine the active queue - it took far fewer instructions
> than a loop to check each queue in an array. The added overhead when doing
Smart trick but by doing it in Linux needs you to get the fpu status
before doing the fp op otherwise you're going to do the fpu status
save/restore each time.
- Davide
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