Re: [RFC] Scheduler queue implementation ...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:23:36 +0000 (GMT)


> But ... UI performance should not matter much. And that is *abuse* of
> threads.

A UI thread often makes sense and its a real latency/efficiency trade off
given the inconvenient human. Thats why I was playing at scheduling all
running processes for an mm on one CPU - your comments make me think that
"for non hogs" might have some relevance.

> If I have a raytracer, and want to explore 8 cpus, how do I do that?
> Separate scene into 8 pieces, make sure no r/w data are shared, and
> clone(CLONE_VM). Are there other ways? [I do not know if people are
> really doing it like that. *I* would do it that way. Is it bad?]

Thats probably the best SMP way
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/