Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:31:32 +0000 (GMT)

> I have a feeling that this discussion got sidetracked: cpu cycles burnt
> in the scheduler indeed is non-issue, but big tasks being needlessly moved
> around on SMPs is worth tackling.]

Its not a non issue - 40% of an 8 way box is a lot of lost CPU. Fixing the
CPU bounce around problem also matters a lot - Ingo's speedups seen just by
improving that on the current scheduler show its worth the work

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