Hi, Felipe and I are doing some research on interactivity on XFree86 when running with the Linux kernel 2.6. There was an interesting thread on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, where it was pointed [1] an interesting solution to adopt, suggested by Haoqiang Zheng:
"I have a kernel based solution to this question. The basic idea is: keep the processes blocked by X server in the runqueue. If a certain process (P) of this kind is scheduled, the kernel switch to the X server instead. If the X server get scheduled in this way, it can handle the X requests from this very process (P)." By reading this message, it looks like the X scheduler really gives the processor to processes, but from what I understood by reading "Efficiently Scheduling X Clients" [2], written by Keith Packard, the XFree86's scheduler is used only to choose which process will have it's X requests processed. Can someone point me to a place where it's explained what the X scheduler does with the process that got scheduled? Thanks in advance, Lucas [1]http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=oq3a.6x8.3%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=12 [2]http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2000/smart.html _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
