Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@maticad.it)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 04:09:54 EST


Hi Helge,

Friday, January 21, 2000 9:03 AM
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> wrote :
> 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.

You don't need to change the scheduler under normal environments since the
patch
perform equally in these cases giving better results under high load.

Cheers,
    Davide.

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