Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM

From: Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 12:41:39 EST


On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, James A Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kabra, Anant wrote:
>
> > I don't know if people have read this yet, but looks like some good analysis
> > of linux kernel threading by IBM
> >
> > http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/java2/index.html
> >
>
> I read it. It was a excellent paper. I'm amazed by just rearranging the
> data in task_struct it reduces the time in the schedular up to 30% on
> Pentium II. I have the patch included below. Anyone working on a
> many-to-many model for threads for linux?

the linux scalability project is exploring many-to-many thread scheduling
issues.

        - Chuck Lever

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