Re: Gang Scheduling in linux

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:40:19PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> you are right in that the Linux scheduler does not enable classic
> gang-scheduling: where multiple processes are scheduled 'at once' on
> multiple CPUs. Can you point out specific (real-life) workloads where this
> would be advantegous? Some testcode would be the best form of expressing
> this. Pretty much any job that uses sane (kernel-based or kernel-helped)
> synchronization should see good throughput.

I will not advocate it myself. I only remembered the definition.

Cheers,
Bill