The staircase scheduler
Posted Jun 4, 2004 0:08 UTC (Fri) by
farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to:
The staircase scheduler by mmarsh
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The staircase scheduler
The only time a process falls down is if it consumes all its timeslices.
Thus, a process that has been placed on the lowest step has consumed
n timeslices at each of the priorities Base through
Base-n. It can only fall off again if it runs for n
timeslices, thus your scenario cannot occur.
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