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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Why does FIFO_Scheduling prefer long running tasks?
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* Robert Dewar wrote:
>> I did read the corresponding part in the Rationale but did not
>> get the idea.
>
>Seems like you got the idea just fine.

Thanks.

>The only "problem" if there is one at all, is that, presumably, for your
>particular application this is not the appropriate dispatching policy
>(probably your application is not a hard real time application, but please
>remember we are talking about the real time annex here).

Of course. I was thinking of preparing my experimental OS for this annex.
So now I know, that I need an other scheduling algorithm for normal work.

Thanks a lot.