The Old New Thing

Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Sleeping doesn’t always help

October 4, 2005 Oct 4, 2005 10/4/05

Raymond Chen

More often I see the reverse of the "Low priority threads can run even when higher priority threads are running" problem. Namely, people who think that is a clean way to yield CPU. For example, they might have run out of things to do and merely wish to wait for another thread to produce some work. Recall that the scheduler looks for the ...