Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

From: Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 03:03:09 EST


> This has probably been asked before, but how difficult would it be to have
> two different schedulers available as compile time options? that way they
> system could be optimized for the expected load.
>
Even better: dynamically use the best algorithm depending on the number
of
runnable processes. The only problem I see with this is that calling
the
scheduler through a pointer (or if-statement) will have a overhead
of its own - every time.

Helge Hafting

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