Re: timer functions for non-kernel

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:44:56PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
>  > Im not sure this is true. It will happily schedule threads without a
> >timer interupt, but it will not time slice threads which are running
> >with the same priority. In many systems you don't actually need time
> >slicing.
> 
> You're right, by kernel I assumed the default mlqueue timeslicing 
> scheduler, not the bitmap one which might not need a timer.

mlqueue should also run without a timer in its none timeslicing
mode. You can configure this with CYGSEM_KERNEL_SCHED_TIMESLICE.

        Andrew