Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable Scheduling

From: Victor Yodaiken (yodaiken@fsmlabs.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 14:51:43 EST


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:40:00PM -0400, Hubertus Franke wrote:
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> We did not modify the UP code at all. There will be NO effects (positive
> nor negative) what so ever.

Cool. So the obvious next question is
        How does it compare on a dual to the current Linux scheduler?

Obviously:
        Performance sucks on two processors but scales well

would not be a good thing.

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> Hubertus Franke
> Enterprise Linux Group (Mgr), Linux Technology Center (Member Scalability)
> , OS-PIC (Chair)
> email: frankeh@us.ibm.com
> (w) 914-945-2003 (fax) 914-945-4425 TL: 862-2003
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> Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com> on 08/08/2001 03:27:55 PM
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> To: Mike Kravetz <mkravetz@sequent.com>
> cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Hubertus
> Franke/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable Scheduling
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> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:28:00AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > One challenge will be maintaining the same level of performance
> > for UP as in the current code. The current code has #ifdefs to
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> How does the "current code" compare to the current Linux UP code?
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