Alternative Thread Schedulers
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue May 29 19:10:00 UTC 2007
On May 29, 2007, at 20:28 , J J wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just read http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5682 that Tim (I think it
> was) mentioned, and found the part about doing alternative
> scheduling with a higher priority thread interesting.
>
> The question I had was, in the example it says the high priority
> process can use Delay's to sleep while other processes are running,
> but what happens when a process does IO? Doesn't that cause the
> process to yield?
>
> What I am thinking is, if I were to make a scheduler process that
> manages all running processes, how can he find out every situation
> where a process yields in some way? It would be ideal if there was
> a Delay millisecondsOrUntilInterupt: type message.
What's the actual problem you want to solve with your alternative
scheduler?
- Bert -
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