Re: [announce] [patch] ultra-scalable O(1) SMP and UP scheduler
Roger Larsson (roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com)
Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:28:27 +0100
On Fridayen den 4 January 2002 12.42, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:
> > What next? Maybe a combination of O(1) and preempt?
>
> yes, fast preemption of kernel-mode tasks and the scheduler code are
> almost orthogonal. So i agree that to get the best interactive performance
> we need both.
>
> Ingo
>
> ps. i'm working on fixing the crashes you saw.
>
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Ingo,
The preemtion kernel adds protection to per process data...
And it is not (yet) updated to handle the O(1) scheduler!
/RogerL
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