Re: Context Switches

From: Nils Petter Vaskinn (no_at_spam.for.me.invalid)
Date: 02/05/04

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    Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:02:51 GMT

    On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:12:54 +0000, Brian Cummings wrote:

    > I see, but if I was preempted by a higher priority process, wouldn't
    > that be an involuntary context switch? I say this because of the two
    > fields specified below:

    >
    > I believe I forgot to mention that the context switches I am looking
    > into are the counts returned by ru_nvcsw (voluntary).

    Is the number constant?
    Does removing the fprintf()-s affect it?

    Can anyone tell me if there is a context switch involved in moving from
    userland to kernel space? (as in when doing the write syscall) 

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NPV
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