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From: paul@unisoft.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Deadlock and Round-robin
Message-ID: <1353@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 17:23:37 GMT
References: <8810261709.AA18143@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa>
Reply-To: paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
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In article <8810261709.AA18143@uk.ac.oxford.prg.inessa> /OU=CCTA452/%idem.hmg.gold-400.gb@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK writes:
>
> ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULING
>....
>
> This will not let any channel have a second go until there are no other
> channels waiting for a first go - sort of round robin but with some
> (inevitable?) quantum uncertainty of exact sequencing.

It robs from the rich and gives to the poor - seems to me to actually be
"Round Robin Hood Scheduling"  .....


	sorry, I couldn't resist ...

	Paul


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