Re: [CapROS-devel] Schedule keeper (was nextPC)

[Charles L. <cl...@ma...>]

At 12:14 PM -0400 8/17/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 08:46 -0700, Charles Landau wrote:
>  > the need for a schedule keeper may arise from the
>  > owner of the CPU cycles, not the application.
>
>Illustrating example?

I will give you up to one minute of CPU time each hour.

After you have used one minute, you fault, and I don't restart you 
until the next hour begins.

A priority-based schedule cannot do this, because if you are the only 
process that wants to run it will run you as long as you want.