Subject: Re: Further scheduler changes
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/19/2006 15:10:42
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I think it would be cool. Solaris' scheduler framework is very nice,
> and one of the things they do is have an "interactive" scheduler class,
> where the top most window (whatever has focus) gets a slight priority bump.
I wondered about this some time ago: how would you do this - hack your
(every?!) window manager to interact with the scheduler? Or go to the X
layer, to talk to the scheduler when a window is exposed?
In any way, having this abstraction work would be nice!
- Hubert