Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

[Davide Libenzi]

Hi James,

Friday, January 21, 2000 3:02 PM
James A Simmons <jsimmons en acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote :
> I know the guy form IBM is watching this thread. I see alot of boo and hah
> about this patch.

sure ? anyway everyone has its own opinions, but remember that You can
optimize the fast path and CPU cacheline
as You want, the algorithm still remain an O( N ) where N is the number of
processes in RQ.

> Before we do anything the patch really needs to be
> tested and studied under all types of conditions. When we have really
> numbers then we can chose what to do with the patch.

This is the thing we all want.

Cheers,
    Davide.

--
All this stuff is IMVHO





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