Re: schedule() "spaghetti" in 2.3.2 ..

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Mon, 17 May 1999 18:31:44 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 16 May 1999, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> what kind of "spaghetti" is schedule() in 2.3.2 ?! :-)

> Probably there's a better way to code it without performance
> loosing

I don't think so. The reason the code is 'spagettified' is
to keep the cache footprint small and the scheduling overhead
low (although I'm pretty sure we can save a few more picoseconds
somewhere).

cheers,

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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