Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> What i was thinking was something like, in timer.c :
>
>         if (p->counter > decay_ticks)
>             --p->counter;
>         else if (++p->timer_ticks >= MAX_RUN_TIME) {
>             p->counter -= p->timer_ticks;
>             p->timer_ticks = 0;
>             p->need_resched = 1;
>         }

Obviously that code doesn't work :) but the idea is to not permit the task
to run more than a maximum time consecutively.

- Davide