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Re: [MiNT] Supexec taking one VBL?



Miro Kropacek píše v St 10. 09. 2008 v 14:22 +0200:
> This could be real problem, this frequent context switch, because we
> want to run the demo/game in multitasking, yes, but not for the prize
> of 30% performance decrease (due to too frequent switching). Maybe we
> could introduce some kind of application flag (in program header --
> "run as topmost/fullscreen/AES-less application" or something like
> that and it would mean the background processes will run in really low
> frequency and kernel will just switch between these user interrupt
> handlers (in any desired frequency).

Well that sounds like a real-time priority flag. Linux does have such
thing, AFAIK.

Petr