Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 14:30:04 EST


On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:23:04PM +0400, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > The SGI scheduler patch fixes that iirc, just unfortunately it didn't get
> > merged :-/
>
> Indeed. Is it the same patch where pointer to cpu local data is help
> in current?

No it is a different patch but from the same guy. I hope Linus considers
them when he submits them. I think both would be very useful in 2.4.
(the per cpu data patch is a lot of search and replace, but it is not
really risky and could be done now)

-Andi

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