[music-dsp] Pre-emptive kernel for DSP

[Bruce Wiggins]

>>But anyway, a process can be interrupted at any 
>>time before eating enterily its slice, if preemption is activated,
can't 
>>it ?

No, this is the point of choosing a 'good' time slice size.  It is a
trade off between system reaction time (if you like!) and CPU efficiency
(as using a very small slice time will make the processor spend all its
time context switching at the extreme!).

cheers



Bruce Wiggins
Signal Processing Applications Research Group
University of Derby
http://sparg.derby.ac.uk