Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

[Daniel Taylor]

Just to jump in here:
  1.5% slowdown on a workstation is insignificant.
  1.5% speedup on a heavy duty server is quite good.

If  something like this gets included it would
be appropriate and desirable to have the
workstation optimization available from
the source level (like the IDE driver
optimizations). This has two positive effects:
1. The single-user optimizations are available and
   can be used by the distributions without custom patches.
2. It gives the home "hot-rodder" a hook into learning
   about the scheduler and an incentive to find it.

Daniel Taylor

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Giovanni Faglioni wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Phillip Ezolt wrote:
> 
> > > Hondreds of tasks is just not a typical (perhaps even realistic)
> > > workload.
> > 
> > Yes it is.  
> 
> 	Maybe we should let the SysAdmin (user) decide 
> 	what (s)he's typical workload is. How about a 
> 	compile-time kernel option ?
> 
> 	This will make both the IBM (server benchmarking) 
> 	folks and the casual home user happy.
> 
> 	--Gio'
> 
> 
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